The skip operator omits the first n items emitted by the input observable and emits all other items of the input observable on the output observable. The following figure shows the workings of this operator:

The prototype of this operator is the following one:

Observable.skip(self, count)

The count parameter is the number of items to skip before emitting some items.

Here is an example of the skip operator in use:

numbers = Observable.from_([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
numbers.skip(2).subscribe(
    on_next = lambda i: print("on_next {}".format(i)),
    on_error = lambda e: print("on_error: {}".format(e)),
    on_completed = lambda: print("on_completed")
)

This example gives the following result:

on_next 3
on_next 4
on_next 5
on_completed