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samuel octelene
1,014 Pointsto use del to delete the 8 from messy
.
messy = [5, 2, 8, 1, 3]
del messy [2]
2 Answers
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsHi Samuel,
You're on the right track and very close. The error is occurring because you have a space between the variable name and the opening square bracket. While whitespace doesn't usually matter, it does here. Just delete the space and you're good to go.
del messy[2]
Good work! :)
samuel octelene
1,014 PointsThank you , i attempted that, and for some reason it is still not passing.