Removing a particular index from a list

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Thu Mar 22 09:15:59 EDT 2007


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.

http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.html#SECTION007200000000000000000

Peter



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