how to remove multiple occurrences of a string within a list?

kyosohma at gmail.com kyosohma at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 14:49:24 EDT 2007


On Apr 3, 1:31 pm, "Matimus" <mccre... at gmail.com> wrote:
> It depends on your application, but a 'set' might really be what you
> want, as opposed to a list.
>
> >>> s = set(["0024","haha","0024"])
> >>> s
>
> set(["0024","haha"])>>> s.remove("0024")
> >>> s
>
> set(["haha"])

If you want, you can also loop over the list, like so:

counter = 0
your_list = ["0024","haha","0024"]
for i in your_list:
	if i == '0024':
		your_list.pop(counter)
	counter += 1


Mike




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