Delete all items in the list

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On Feb 26, 3:05 am, Clarendon <jine... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. This must be a simple command but I just can't find it in the
> Phthon manual. How do I delete all items with a certain condition from
> a list? For instance:
>
> L=['a', 'b', 'c', 'a']
>
> I want to delete all 'a's from the list.
> But if L.remove('a') only deletes the first 'a'.
>
> How do you delete all 'a's?
> I would really appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks.

while 'a' in L:
   L.remove('a')

not the most efficient but it works