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Dhruv Ghulati
1,582 PointsHow to delete boolean, string and list within the_list - dont know conditional for these attributes
Not sure how to do this. Can I call delete on multiple index values by the way e.g. del the_list(0,4,5) to delete 3 index values? Here in my code I try on separate lines, and it says 'Ooops, looks like code from part one is not working'
the_list = ["a", 2, 3, 1, False, [1, 2, 3]]
# Your code goes below here
the_list.insert(0,the_list.pop(3))
del the_list[1]
del the_list[5]
del the_list[6]
2 Answers
Calistus Oledibe
176 PointsYou'll have five items in your list after the del the_list[1] line hence del the_list[5] will throw and index out of range error because you only have five items left. Remember that index starts from 0 therefore for 5 items you should be deleting an item with an index <= [5-1] .
And i'm not sure you can delete multiple items from a list with a single call due to the fact that the size of the list will shrink when any item is removed and therefore.
Dhruv Ghulati
1,582 PointsThanks a lot - makes total sense. By making the del option anything less than a value rather than the value itself I see how it would solve it. Thanks calistus!