light1qu...@gmail.com writes: > However if you run the code you will notice only one of the strings > beginning with 'x' is removed from the startingList.
> > def testFunc(startingList): > xOnlyList = []; > for str in startingList: > if (str[0] == 'x'): > print str; > xOnlyList.append(str) > startingList.remove(str) #this seems to be the problem > print xOnlyList; > print startingList > testFunc(['xasd', 'xjkl', 'sefwr', 'dfsews']) > > #Thanks for your help! Try with ['xasd', 'sefwr', 'xjkl', 'dfsews'] and you'll understand what happens. Also, have a look at: http://docs.python.org/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-for-statement You can't modify the list you're iterating on, better use another list to collect the result. -- Alain. P/S: str is a builtin, you'd better avoid assigning to it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
