Ignore first few letters of a line when reading file.

[buran]

@BitPythoner, in python you don't need the position, nor need to convert to list - you can iterate over str:

>>> spam = 'name = John'
>>> for char in spam:
...     print(char)
... 
n
a
m
e
 
=
 
J
o
h
n
>>> for idx, char in enumerate(spam):
...     print(f'position:{idx}, char:{char}')
... 
position:0, char:n
position:1, char:a
position:2, char:m
position:3, char:e
position:4, char: 
position:5, char:=
position:6, char: 
position:7, char:J
position:8, char:o
position:9, char:h
position:10, char:n