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Shaun Jensen
Courses Plus Student 3,020 Pointshaving trouble with the Removing items from a list Challenge Task 2
just wondering why my code isn't working?
messy_list = ["a", 2, 3, 1, False, [1, 2, 3]] messy_list.pop(3) messy_list.insert(0, 1)
Your code goes below here
del messy_list[0] del messy_list[4] messy_list.remove([1, 2, 3])
thanks for the help
1 Answer
Susannah Klanecek
5,825 PointsOne of the problems I can spot is that once you delete the item at the 0th index, the item at the 4th index becomes the [1,2,3] list so your next 2 commands both try to delete that one, since indexes shift after you delete the first one