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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:

def skip_first(pipe, items=1):
    ''' this is an alias for skip to parallel the dedicated skip_last function
        to provide a little more readability to the code. the action of actually
        skipping does not occur until the first iteration is done
    '''
    pipe = iter(pipe)
    for i in skip(pipe, items):
        yield i