How to strip the first characters of a Python variable?

Question

Python

There is a variable -
a = 20202020-12-112020-12-11-12
The first 14 characters must be removed from it.
That is, the result should be - 2020-12-11-12

Answer 1

a = a[14:]

Answer 2

You need to make a cut. Answer given above

Answer 3

I will add: if this is not a string, wrap it in str ()