l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
del l[0:3] # Here 3 specifies the number of items to be deleted.
This is the code if you want to delete a number of items from the list. You might as well skip the zero before the colon. It does not have that importance. This might do as well.
l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
del l[:3] # Here 3 specifies the number of items to be deleted.