Yansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Got a quick n00b question. What's the difference between del and >remove?
It would have been easier to answer if you had given a little context. "del" is a Python statement that removes a name from a namespace, an item from a dictionary, or an item from a list. "remove" is a member function of the 'list' class that finds a specific entry in the list and removes it. Example: >>> e = [9,8,7,6] ; del e[2] ; e [9, 8, 6] >>> e = [9,8,7,6] ; e.remove(2) ; e Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list >>> e = [9,8,7,6] ; e.remove(8) ; e [9, 7, 6] Note that "del e[2]" removed item number 2 (counting from 0). e.remove(8) removed the item that had the value 8 from the list. e.remove(2) failed because the number 2 was not in the list. Dictionaries do not have a "remove" method. You have to use the "del" statement. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
