Removing a particular index from a list

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Thu Mar 22 09:49:43 EDT 2007


Steve Holden wrote:

> Peter Otten wrote:
>> Srikanth wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> del li[-1]
>> 
>>> This is my problem.
>> 
>> This, or not reading the tutorial.
>> 
> No, that's OUR problem :-)

And the fact that it's our /self-inflicted/ problem makes it all the more
severe :-)

Peter



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