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Skip first line with Python stdin?

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00:00 Skip First Line With Python Stdin?
00:38 Accepted Answer Score 8
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 8


You can use enumerate to keep track of the line number:

for linenum, line in enumerate(sys.stdin):
    if linenum != 0:
        process line