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Tim Creed
Courses Plus Student 2,975 Pointsmessy_list issue
I thought this would be easy. Of the indices I want to delete (0,4,5), I'd start with the highest so as not to mess up the index positions. So I removed 5, then 4, and finally 0. It worked in workspaces.
messy_list = ["a", 2, 3, 1, False, [1, 2, 3]]
# Your code goes below here
del messy_list[5]
del messy_list[4]
del messy_list[0]
2 Answers
Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 PointsIn task 1 of 2 you move the 1 (index 3) to index 0, and then messy_list would look like this:
messy_list = [1, "a", 2, 3, False, [1, 2, 3]]
Remember to not remove the code from task 1, because this will make the code fail.
Steven Parker
231,275 PointsBut the instructions don't say to just remove items. In fact, task 1 says "start by moving the 1 from index 3 to index 0".
So for task 1, you will only be changing the order, nothing will be permanently removed. Then in task 2 you'll remove things from the re-ordered list.
In all multi-task challenges each task build on the previous one. Unless the instructions explicitly say otherwise, each task's code will remain as-is while you add code for the next.