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Jeremy O'Bryan
16,672 PointsRemoving list items by number in Python
Hey everyone,
I have a question about lists; so say for instance I had a list of items, and I wanted the user to be able to view an enumerated list of the items and then remove an item by selecting the corresponding number. I know we can enumerate a list like so:
names = ['spam', 'eggs', 'killer rabbit' , 'coconuts']
for id,name in enumerate(names,1):
print(str(id) + '.',name)
But suppose I wanted to allow the user to select '1' to remove the first item. I was thinking I could somehow assign a value to each index and remove items based on that, but I'm not sure how to approach that. As always, any help is appreciated, thanks again!
1 Answer
Steven Parker
243,318 PointsSince index numbers start at 0, the index number could be computed as the selected item number minus one.
Then, you can simply delete that item from the list: "del names[index]".