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Python Python Collections (Retired) Lists Redux Manipulating Lists

cody oberholtzer
cody oberholtzer
1,988 Points
Posted by cody oberholtzer
cody oberholtzer
1,988 Points

Use .remove() and/or del to remove the string, boolean, and list members of the_list.

Hello, not sure why this is not working. First it tells me Task 1 Error. Then in workspace it seems to work except for the list does not get removed. Thanks. Also not sure why pop does not use [3].

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

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

for item in the_list:
    if item != int:
        print(item, " removed.\n")
        the_list.remove(item)
    else:
        continue

1 Answer

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Hi there, Couple issues here. 1. if item != int: is not the correct way of doing variable type checking in Python, type() build-in method is the tool for that job; 2. avoid deleting the list elements and thereby shrinking the list's length while traversing the list, doing so would almost always produce unexpected result in Python.

I believe this challenge only requires you to use either remove or del to delete those elements from the list one line at the time.

the_list = ["a", 2, 3, 1, False, [1, 2, 3]]

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

the_list.remove("a")
the_list.remove(False)
the_list.remove([1, 2, 3])

This would be a perfectly reasonable way of solving the part2 of the challenge. Normally, hardcoding like such and letting human doing all the work for the computer is considered bad programming, however, the intent of part2 is about giving you a chance to practice remove or del and be comfortable about using 'em to eliminate elements from a list. So that's fine in this case.

Later into the Python lecture, when you eventually learn about list comprehension, you can solve this challenge in one-line, like such.

the_list = [i for i in the_list if type(i) not in (str, bool, list)]

Cheers.