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Tatenda Mananda
267 Pointsremoving something from the list
how do l remove something from the list
2 Answers
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 PointsUse the remove function. For example:
aList.remove('xyz');
Julian Garcia
18,380 PointsConsidering a list like a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 'dog', 'cat']
a.remove(2) remove first 2, a = [1, 3, 4, 2, 'dog', 'cat']
a.remove('cat')) remove cat, a= [1, 3, 4, 2, 'dog' ]
a.remove(2) a= [1, 3, 4, 'dog' ]
you just need to specify the element you want to remove from list but if there are two repeated elements and you want to remove the second one then is better to use del to remove by index, because remove issuing to delete the first occurrence of element from left to right.
if you want to remove by index you can use:
del a[1] removes first 2, a= [1, 3, 4, 2, 'dog', 'cat']
del a[-1] removes the last element, a= [1, 3, 4, 2, 'dog']
del a[1:3] delete element 1 and 2 so the result is a= [1, 2, 'dog']