How to remove characters from a list in python

I have created a list of sequence names and sequences from a fasta file. Does anybody know how I can remove the ‘>’ character from the sequence names list? I have tried using strip, replace, map. The list provides the following output:

>chrI
>chrII
>chrIII

where it should be:

chrI
chrII
chrIII

fp = open(r'demo_fasta_file_2022.fas', 'r')
def read_fasta(fp):
    sequence_names, sequences = None, []
    for line in fp:
        line = line.rstrip()
        if line.startswith(">"):
            if sequence_names: yield (sequence_names, ''.join(sequences))
            sequence_names, sequences = line, []
        else:
            sequences.append(line)
    if sequence_names: yield (sequence_names, ''.join(sequences))

with open('demo_fasta_file_2022.fas') as fp:
    for sequence_names, sequences in read_fasta(fp):
        print(sequence_names)

>Solution :

Just slice:

print(line[1:])

If you are unsure of the presence of ‘>’, use:

if line.startswith(">"):
    print(line[1:])
else:
    print(line)