Python Slicing

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Hello,
I am just wondering as to what slicing in python is becasue in the lesson Delete Starting Even Numbers, got stuck and it gave me a while loop:

while (len(lst) > 0 and lst[0] % 2 == 0):
    lst = lst[1:]
  return lst

I don’t understand the lst = lst[1:], please help :smiley:

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You select a portion of the list, in this case from the second element (1st index) till end. An expensive way of removing the first element (0th index) of the list

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If you wanted some more reading, this article explains it nicely.