Hi. I have a list of common prefixes: >>> prefixes = [ "the", "this", "that", "da", "d", "is", "are", "r", "you", "u"]
And I have a string, that I split() into a list. >>> sentence = "what the blazes is this" >>> sentence = sentence.split() Now I want to strip the sentence of all words in the prefix list. I tried this method: >>> for x in prefixes: ... if sentence.index(x): ... del sentence[sentence.index(x)] This raises, the error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 3, in ? ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list This puzzles me, because if x isn't in the list, the subroutine shouldn't attempt to delete it from the list, so I'm not sure why it's complaining. Can anybody explain this to me, &/or show me a better way to do it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
