Ignore first few letters of a line when reading file.

[ShakeyPakey]

Hello, everybody!

I have run into a spot of bother while writing my Python script and I am wondering if anyone can help me out.

I am trying to read a text file using Python. That goes well and I am able to read the file line-by-line (using the File_Object.readline() function), which is my goal. However, to make my file more organized, I do this, for example my first line:

name = John

I want to use "John" only as a variable, and I don't want to read the first 7 bytes of the line: "name = "
I only want to read "John".

Is there anyway I am able to do this? I also want to add that the variable after "name = " is randomised and may not always be "John". I just need to ignore the "name = ". Thank you.