[Tutor] reducing a list evenly when deleting elements by index

[Pete O'Connell]

Hi, I have a bezier line with 20 points on it and I am trying to reduce
this to a line with 4 points, keeping the first and last points and 2
evenly spaced points in between like so:
*....................*
becomes:
*.     .      .     .*

These points are removable only by index, so if I remove point 2,
point 3 then becomes point 2 in the next iteration, so I end up having a
spacing like this which is not what I want:
*.          .     . .*


Here is the code that I have so far. I hope it makes sense:
##############################################################################################
for aNode in nuke.allNodes():
    if aNode.shown():
        theRotoNode = aNode

curveKnob = theRotoNode['curves']
rootLayer = curveKnob.rootLayer
theNumberOfPointToReduceTo = 5
for aShape in rootLayer:
    theOriginalShape = aShape
    thePointList = []
    for aPoint in aShape:

        thePointList.append(aPoint)
        if len(thePointList) > 5:

            theNumberOfPoints = len(thePointList)
            keepEvery = float(theNumberOfPoints)/theNumberOfPointToReduceTo
            theIndicesToKeep = []
            theIndicesToKeep.append(0)
            theIndicesToKeep.append(1)
            for i in range(theNumberOfPoints)[1:-1]:
                if i*keepEvery < theNumberOfPoints:
                    theIndicesToKeep.append(int(round(i*keepEvery)))
            theIndicesToKeep.append(theNumberOfPoints-2)
            theIndicesToKeep.append(theNumberOfPoints-1)
            thePointsToRemove = tuple(set(range(theNumberOfPoints)) -
set(theIndicesToKeep))

            #everything is good up to here, the code below doesn't work
properly and I'm kinda stuck

            counter = -1
            for aPointIndex in thePointsToRemove:
                counter+=1
                aPointIndex = aPointIndex-(counter)
                print aPointIndex
                aShape.remove(aPointIndex)
############################################################################################

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Pete
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