list remove

[Chris Barker]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Oleg>    NEVER, I said NEVER modify the list while running through it!
> 
> Never say "never".  ;-)

>     >>> foo = [1,2,3,4,5]
>     >>> for i in range(len(foo)-1,-1,-1):
>     ...   del foo[i]
>     ...
>     >>> foo
>     []

But this doesn't modify the list you are running through, it modifies
foo, while you are running through the list generated by the range().

-Chris


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