Removing a particular index from a list

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Mar 22 09:11:14 EDT 2007


Srikanth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> list.remove(item) removes the first item from the list, but how do I
> say to remove a particular index from a list without using it's value?
> 
> Let's say I have 4 items in my list as
> 
>>>> li = ["sri", "s", "srikanth", "s"]
> 
> And if I want to remove the last item ("s"), how do I remove it?
> li.remove(-1) doesn't do it. This is my problem.
> 
  >>> li = ["sri", "s", "srikanth", "s"]
  >>> del li[-1]
  >>> li
['sri', 's', 'srikanth']
  >>>

regards
  Steve
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