How to remove the first Item from a list?

You can find a short collection of useful list functions here.

>>> l = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']>>> l.pop(0)'a'>>> l['b', 'c', 'd']>>>

>>> l = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']>>> del l[0]>>> l['b', 'c', 'd']>>>

These both modify your original list.

Others have suggested using slicing:

Also, if you are performing many pop(0), you should look at collections.deque

from collections import deque>>> l = deque(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])>>> l.popleft()'a'>>> ldeque(['b', 'c', 'd'])

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Slicing:

x = [0,1,2,3,4]x = x[1:]

Which would actually return a subset of the original but not modify it.

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>>> x = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]>>> x.pop(0)0

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