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Remove list elements

Returns a list with n elements removed from the beginning.

  • Use slice notation to create a slice of the list with n elements taken from the beginning.
def take(itr, n = 1):
  return itr[:n]
take([1, 2, 3], 5) # [1, 2, 3]
take([1, 2, 3], 0) # []

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