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I want to iterate over everything in a list except the first few elements, e.g.: for line in lines[2:]: foo(line) This is concise, but copies the whole list, which is unnecessary. I could do: del lines[0:2] for line in lines: foo(line) But this modifies the list, which isn't always good. I can do this: for i in xrange(2, len(lines)): line = lines[i] foo(line) But, that's just gross. Better might be this: for i,line in enumerate(lines): if i < 2: continue foo(line) But it isn't quite as obvious as the very first example. So: What's a way to do it that is as obvious as the first example, but doesn't copy the list unnecessarily?
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