list remove

[Terry Reedy]

> 0 has the section more on lists where it gives the function
remove(x).  I am
> trying to use this function to delete elements out of my list, but
it only
> deletes every other list.
>
> >>>foo = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
> >>>for bar in foo:
> ... foo.remove(bar)
>
> >>>foo
> [2, 4]

Besides the other answers ...

foo [] #bind  'foo' to empty list
foo[:] # delete in place

To selectively delete multiple items, use filter().

Terry J. Reedy