list.without()?

[Christian Tismer]

"Stidolph, David" wrote:
> 
> so ...
> 
> def without(source, element):
>   while element in source:
>     source.remove(element)
> 
> Is that what you are looking for?  It would help if I had read the earlier
> posts!  :)

Semantically, yes. Proactically, I'm more keen on speed,
and i guess the single try catcher is more efficient than
to look up every thing twice. (Didn't measure it, but I'm quite sure).

ciao - chris

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