Lists redux

Question

Hi 
I'm wondering why in this code challenge I could not get the 2nd part (remove string, list and boolean values) working any other way than - 
for t in thelist:
    if type(t) is str:
        thelist.remove(t)
    elif type(t) is list:
        thelist.remove(t)
for t in thelist:
    if type(t) is bool:
        the_list.remove(t)        
I tried using - 
for t in thelist:
    if type(t) is str or type(t) is list or type(t) is bool:
        thelist.remove(t)
And then - 
for t in thelist:
    if type(t) is str:
        thelist.remove(t)
    elif type(t) is list:
        thelist.remove(t)  
    elif type(t) is bool:
        thelist.remove(t)       
But no joy! Can anyone help?

Abdul hamid Achik Lopez · Answer

here man, its much simplier to do this: 
 ```python
the_list.remove("a")
del the_list[3]
the_list.remove([1, 2, 3])
 ```
this same question was asked before somehow with a diferent problem
https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/python-collection-challenge-task-2-out-of-3

jamestoynton · Answer

Thanks guys

Kenneth Love · Answer

Generally not a great idea to check types with type(). Better to do isinstance(variable, type). But, like @Abdul hamid Achik Lopez (https://teamtreehouse.com/abdulachik) pointed out, you don't need to do type checking on this at all.

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Lists redux

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