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

7stud bbxx789_05ss at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 3 15:01:46 EDT 2007


On Apr 3, 12:20 pm, "bahoo" <b83503... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a list like ['0024', 'haha', '0024']
> and as output I want ['haha']
>
> If I
> myList.remove('0024')
>
> then only the first instance of '0024' is removed.
>
> It seems like regular expressions is the rescue, but I couldn't find
> the right tool.
>
> Thanks!
> bahoo

Here are a couple of ways:

target = "0024"
l = ["0024", "haha", "0024"]

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while(True):
    try:
        l.remove(target)
    except ValueError:
        break

print l
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for index, val in enumerate(l):
    if val==target:
        del l[index]

print l




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