get first char of a string?
 

using python.

if i have a string elstringo and want to get the 1st symbol/char/number/whatever and have it removed from the string is there a specific function for this?

btw is a char a string with the length 1 so to speak?

im talking about sutff like this:

http://www.cppreference.com/cppstring/index.html


i google python string and get nothing really useful.

http://eric_rollins.home.mindspring....mming/ch7.html

there we go found it myself