Deleting from a list

[Hans Nowak]

bvdpoel at uniserve.com wrote:
> 
> Does python have a notion as to where the current item in a list is? I
> have something like:
> 
>         for l in lines:
>                 if something ...
>                 if something else:
>                         delete l from list
> 
> Of course, this doesn't work. So, I tried:
> 
>         for i in len(lines):
>                 l=lines[i]
>                 ...
>                 if ...:
>                         lines.pop(i)
> 
> and this causes problems since 'i' can now point to out of range lines.

You can traverse the list backwards:

>>> x = [1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 1, 1, 7, 1]
>>> for i in range(len(x)-1,-1,-1):
	if x[i] == 1:  # or a condition of your choice
		del x[i]
>>> x
[2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 7]
>>> 

HTH,

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