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Roderick Sailes
Courses Plus Student 1,018 PointsUse .remove() and/or del to remove the string, boolean, and list members of the_list. Please advise !!!
Please advise
the_list = ["a", 2, 3, 1, False, [1, 2, 3]]
# Your code goes below here
the_list.insert(0, the_list.pop(3))
del the_list[3]
2 Answers
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherThat del the_list[3] will be deleting the 3 from the list, not the False. Remember, the state of your list changes. So after you do the_list.insert(0, the_list.pop(3)), your list looks like [1, "a", 2, 3, False, [1, 2, 3]].
You're on the right track, but you probably want to make a cheat sheet for the state of the list at the end of each operation.
Gordon Reeder
2,521 Pointsthe_list.remove(3) is more 'Pythonic'.
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherIs it? I think it really depends on your use case. If the same element is in the list multiple times, .remove() will over remove the first instance of it. What if you want to leave the first but need to remove the second or third? Each feature in Python exists because each is useful in certain situations.