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itertools.dropwhile() skips items at the beginning of an iterable while a predicate is true. After the first false result, it yields the rest unchanged.

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itertools.dropwhile(predicate, iterable)

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Source: itertools — Functions creating iterators for efficient looping — Python 3.15.2 documentation. Checked 2026-11-03.