How to del item of a list in loop?

[John Machin]

Michael Hoffman wrote:
> skull wrote:
> > but I still have an other thing to worry about coming with this
way: does
> > performance sucks when the list is big enough?
> > It makes a copy operation!
> >
> > here is a faster and 'ugly' solution:
> >
> > lst = [1, 2, 3]
> > i = 0
> > while i < len(lst):
> >     if lst[i] == 2:
> >         lst.remove(i)
> >     else:
> >         i += 1
>
> Actually, that is the slowest of the three methods proposed so far
for
> large lists on my system.

Assuming, as have other posters, that the requirement is to remove all
elements whose value is 2: it doesn't work. The result is [2, 3]
instead of the expected [1, 3].

>   method_while: [3.8680000305175781, 3.8680000305175781,
3.872999906539917]

Three significant figures is plenty. Showing just the minimum of the
results might be better.

> If you want to get really hairy, you can compare the bytecode
instructions
> for these three methods:
Timing and bytecode-peeking a broken function are a little "premature".