[Python-ideas] Proposal how to remove all occurrences of a value from a Python list

[Mark Lawrence]

On 04/10/2015 00:14, Rob Cliffe wrote:
>
> Other things that might be useful (sorry, I have no use cases in mind):
>      a.remove(1, count)    # maximum number of removals, analogous to
> aString.replace(old, new, count)

Make the default count=1 to preserve the current behaviour and wouldn't 
everybody be happy?

>      a remove-like function that does not raise an error if the item is
> not present
>      a remove-like function that returns the mutated list (like
> sorted(), as opposed to list.sort() )
> It's not obvious to me how to design good API(s) to do some/all of this.
> Rob Cliffe

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