Removing items from a list in a loop

[Christian Tanzer]

olczyk at interaccess.com (Thaddeus L. Olczyk) wrote:

> I would like to remove a bunch of items from a list *efficiently*.
> Essentially  I would like to do this:
> 
>    for x in list:
>         if Function(x):
> 	list.remove(x)
> 
> This does not work.

list = filter (lambda x : not Function (x), list)

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