Itertools dropwhile method explained

Itertools dropwhile makes an iterator that drops elements from the iterable as long as the predicate is true; afterwards, returns every element

from itertools import dropwhile

text = """#This is comment line 1
#This is comment line 2
    public abstract T getValue();
    public abstract void update(T object);"""

for line in dropwhile(lambda line: line.startswith('#'), text.split('\n')):
    print line

    public abstract T getValue();
    public abstract void update(T object);