Got a quick n00b question. What's the difference between del and
remove?
remove?
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Re: Difference between del and remove?
"Yansky" <thegooddale@gm ail.comwrote in message
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| Got a quick n00b question. What's the difference between del and
| remove?
Python has a del statement but not a remove statement. Correspondingly ,
the first is a keyword and the second is not.
tjr
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Re: Difference between del and remove?
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:17:49 -0800, Yansky wrote:
Everything. list.remove(val ue) removes the first item equal to value.Got a quick n00b question. What's the difference between del and remove?
del list[index] removes the item at position index.
See also: help([].remove)
Help on built-in function remove:
remove(...)
L.remove(value) -- remove first occurrence of value
[101, 102, 104, 105]>>alist = [101, 102, 103, 104, 105]
>>alist.remove( 103)
>>alist[102, 104, 105]>>del alist[0]
>>alist
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Steven.
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Re: Difference between del and remove?
Yansky <thegooddale@gm ail.comwrote:It would have been easier to answer if you had given a little context.>
>Got a quick n00b question. What's the difference between del and
>remove?
"del" is a Python statement that removes a name from a namespace, an item
from a dictionary, or an item from a list.
"remove" is a member function of the 'list' class that finds a specific
entry in the list and removes it.
Example:
[9, 8, 6]>>e = [9,8,7,6] ; del e[2] ; e
Traceback (most recent call last):>>e = [9,8,7,6] ; e.remove(2) ; e
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list
[9, 7, 6]>>e = [9,8,7,6] ; e.remove(8) ; e
Note that "del e[2]" removed item number 2 (counting from 0). e.remove(8)
removed the item that had the value 8 from the list. e.remove(2) failed
because the number 2 was not in the list.
Dictionaries do not have a "remove" method. You have to use the "del"
statement.
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Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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Re: Difference between del and remove?
Thanks for the clarification guys. :)
On Dec 13, 7:05 pm, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com wrote:Yansky <thegoodd...@gm ail.comwrote:
>>Got a quick n00b question. What's the difference between del and
remove?
It would have been easier to answer if you had given a little context.
>
"del" is a Python statement that removes a name from a namespace, an item
from a dictionary, or an item from a list.
>
"remove" is a member function of the 'list' class that finds a specific
entry in the list and removes it.
>
Example:
>>>e = [9,8,7,6] ; del e[2] ; e
[9, 8, 6]
>>>e = [9,8,7,6] ; e.remove(2) ; e
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list
>>>e = [9,8,7,6] ; e.remove(8) ; e
[9, 7, 6]
>
Note that "del e[2]" removed item number 2 (counting from 0). e.remove(8)
removed the item that had the value 8 from the list. e.remove(2) failed
because the number 2 was not in the list.
>
Dictionaries do not have a "remove" method. You have to use the "del"
statement.
--
Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.Comment
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