title: How to remove two chars from the beginning of a line
body: <p>I'm a complete Python noob. How can I remove two characters from the beginning of each line in a file? I was trying something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/Python26/
  
  import re
  
  f = open('M:/file.txt')
  lines=f.readlines()
  
  i=0;
  for line in lines:
      line = line.strip()     
      #do something here
  </code></pre>