Newbie question about list method remove
Larry Bates
lbates at swamisoft.com
Wed May 5 20:32:00 EDT 2004
In Python you must think "differently" than in
other programming languages.
li2=[f for f in li2 if not f.endswith('.txt')]
for your specific example or in Python 2.2 and earlier
li2=[f for f in li2 if f.count('.txt') == 0]
for the more general .txt ANYWHERE in the string
or in Python 2.3
li2=[f for f in li2 if not '.txt' in f]
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.
"Sean Berry" <sean_berry at cox.net> wrote in message
news:myemc.69648$Jy3.5301 at fed1read03...
> Why is this:
>
> >>> li2 =['this.txt', 'that.txt', 'April04', 'more.txt']
> >>> for item in li2:
> if ".txt" in item:
> li2.remove("%s" %item)
> >>> li2
> ['that.txt', 'April04']
>
> I would think that 'that.txt' would be removed as well. Where am I wrong?
>
> TIA
>
>
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