[Python-ideas] Allow multiple arguments to `list.remove` and flag for silent fail

[Peter Otten]

Ram Rachum wrote:

> Why do I have to do this:
> 
> for thing in things:
>     try:
>         my_list.remove(thing)
>     except ValueError:
>         pass
> 
> 
> When I could do this:
> 
> my_list.remove(*things, silent_fail=True)
> 
> 
> Aside from being much more concise, it could be more efficient too,
> couldn't it?

Have you considered a set instead of a list?

my_set.difference_update(things)

is certainly more efficient if the items in the list are hashable, occur 
only once, and you don't care about order.