newbie : removing recurring element from lists

[Andrew Thompson]

But then it's not good English!

Maybe we can have 'whilst' to be identical to 'while'!

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Mark Rowe
Sent: 11 October 2002 11:15
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Subject: RE: newbie : removing recurring element from lists

On 2002-10-11 11:03:45 +0100 Andrew Thompson 
<andrew.thompson at ashecastle.com> wrote:

> Much better to let the machine do the work :
> '
> 
> while aList.__contains__(yourValue):
> 	aList.remove(yourValue)
> 
> '

Its probably a bit cleaner to phrase that as

while yourValue in aList:
    aList.remove(yourValue)


HTH,
Mark


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