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Bennett Golden
1,462 Pointshaving trouble removing str, boolean and list from the_list
I'm supposed to use remove or del to get rid of the str, boolean and list from the_list, but I can't figure it out. I'm very new to Python and I'm having a tough time making sense of this. This is the best code I've come up with, but it still doesn't work.
I tried: for item in the_list: while True: try: del the_list() except: break
but it really didn't like that one.
can someone point me in the right direction, please?
the_list = ["a", 2, 3, 1, False, [1, 2, 3]]
first = the_list.pop(3)
the_list.insert(0,first)
# Your code goes below here
for str in the_list:
while True:
try:
the_list.remove(str)
except:
break
for bool in the_list:
while True:
try:
the_list.remove(bool)
except:
break
for list in the_list:
while True:
try:
the_list.remove(list)
except:
break
2 Answers
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherBennett;
Welcome to Treehouse!
You can greatly simplify your efforts on this one, let's take a look:
Task 2
Use .remove() and/or del to remove the string, boolean, and list members of the_list.
Removing the string can be accomplished with:
the_list.remove("a")
Removing the boolean...
del the_list[3]
Removing the list members...
the_list.remove([1, 2, 3])
Hope that helps and post back if you have additional questions.
Happy coding,
Ken
Bennett Golden
1,462 PointsOk, wow! That was so much simpler than I was thinking it was... Thanks a lot, Ken. Don't know why I make things so hard for myself sometimes.
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherNo worries. It is part of the learning process and can lead to some "ah-ha" moments when you work up a reasonable approach to a problem only to discover that there is a built in function to do a task.
Great job sticking with it!
Happy coding,
Ken