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Dimitar Tsvetkov
6,806 PointsCollection challenge. Please help. Can't make second task work. What am I doing wrong?
Please someone explain why doesn't my code work?
the_list = ["a", 2, 3, 1, False, [1, 2, 3]]
# Your code goes below here
the_list_1 = the_list.pop(3)
the_list.insert(0, the_list_1)
remove_member = [1, 4, 5]
for i in sorted(remove_member, reverse=True):
del the_list[i]
print the_list
3 Answers
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacherprint won't work because this is Python 3, not Python 2.
Once you ditch the "a" and move the "1", doing del the_list[1], which your for loop does, removes the "2". I don't think that's something you want to do.
Scale back the cleverness and just try it the long, ugly way.
Dimitar Tsvetkov
6,806 PointsI solved it. Thank you Kenneth!
andre karamanian
1,184 Pointsso this works in python 3.5 (see below) del crunches all the objects?! what up with that?! I pac-manned position 0 as the list got smaller until empty set of course this doesnt work in the challenge screen
list23b.py: cant get this to display properly in this answer box but basically for loop over range len(the_list) with del the_list[0] inside the loop, eating the list from left to right
the_list = ["a", 2, 3, 1, False, [1, 2, 3]]
print(the_list)
the_list.insert(0,the_list.pop(3))
for i in range(len(the_list)):
del the_list[0]
print(the_list)
$ python3 list23b.py
['a', 2, 3, 1, False, [1, 2, 3]]
['a', 2, 3, False, [1, 2, 3]]
[2, 3, False, [1, 2, 3]]
[3, False, [1, 2, 3]]
[False, [1, 2, 3]]
[[1, 2, 3]]
[]
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherI'm not sure what you're asking. Yes, del can/will delete everything