Removing items from a list in a loop

[Greg Ewing]

Andrew Henshaw wrote:
> 
> >Is there a safe way to iterate through a list and remove some items?

I sometimes do it this way:

  i = 0
  while i < len(l):
    if f(l[i]):
      del l[i]
    else:
      i = i + 1

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