list remove

[James_Althoff at i2.com]

The python tutorial at
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node7.html#SECTION00710000000000000000

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]

Is this an error on my part, pythons list type or am I misinterpretting
what
remove does?  I have tried this on both 2.1 and 1.5.2.

Thanks.
Steve

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It's not a good practice to delete items from a list when iterating over
that same list.  Iterate over a copy of the list instead.

Just change

for bar in foo:

to

for bar in foo[:]:  # now you are iterating over a copy of foo

Jim