Remove a prefix from a string

Short and sweet:

def remove_prefix(text, prefix):
    return text[text.startswith(prefix) and len(prefix):]

I don't know about "standard way".

def remove_prefix(text, prefix):
    if text.startswith(prefix):
        return text[len(prefix):]
    return text  # or whatever

As noted by @Boris and @Stefan, on Python 3.9+ you can use

text.removeprefix(prefix)

with the same behavior.