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Python Python Collections (Retired) Lists Redux Manipulating Lists

Ahmed Elsawey
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Ahmed Elsawey
Courses Plus Student 3,527 Points
Posted by Ahmed Elsawey
Ahmed Elsawey
Courses Plus Student 3,527 Points

task 2 manipulating lists redux I cant do it

Whenever I try to delete all members of the list it says task 1 is no longer passing Kenneth Love Ricky Catron

lists.py 
the_list = ["a", 2, 3, 1, False, [1, 2, 3]]

# Your code goes below here
num = the_list.pop(3)
the_list.insert(0,num)

del the_list[1]
del the_list[4]
del the_list[2]
del the_list[5]

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

The tricky aspect of using del the_list[index]is the resultant list has items at new indexes. Using your list of del statements, there is no longer an item at index 5 by the time del the_list[5] executes. One strategy using del is to work from the back of the list so the item index values don't change for the closer items.

Change your ordering to this:

del the_list[5] # remove list
del the_list[4] # remove Boolean
del the_list[1] # remove string
#del the_list[2]  # <-- This del not needed