Python skip first line of multiline string

Question

Is there a way to skip the first line of a multiline string? So that I can do this:

str = """
  some
  indented
  stuff"""

instead of

str = """  some
  indented
  stuff"""

Answer 1

The python parser takes any end-of-line \ in the code followed by no characters as a line break for the parser :

x = """\
  some
  indented
  stuff"""

Answer 2

str = """ some indented stuff""" def formatter(my_str): return '\n'.join([elem.strip() for elem in my_str.split('\n')[1:]]) print(formatter(str))