Gary Herron wrote:
You could remove the object from the list with
del myList[i]
if you knew i. HOWEVER, don't do that while looping through the list!
Changing a list's length will interact badly with the for loop's
indexing through the list, causing the loop to mis the element following
the deleted item.
Jumping into a thread, I know how not to do it, but not how to do it
properly?
Iterating over a copy may _probably_ work:
>>> t=['a', 'c', 'b', 'd']
>>>
>>> for el in t[:]:
del t[t.index(el)]
>>> t
[]
However, is it really safe? Defining safe as "works reliably in every
corner case for every indexable data type"?
Con: suppose the data structure t is really, really big. Just deleting
some items from t temporarily doubles the memory consumption.
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