Delete values from a string using the index

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

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How do I delete or remove values from a list
del

or string

You can't. Python's strings are immutables.

using the
index.

If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would I do
that?

del a[0:5]
print a

 

[koutoo]

How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the
index.

If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would I do
that?

Thanks.

 

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the
index.

If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would
I do that?

del a[0:5]

Be sure to check out the relevant section of the Python tutorial.

http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.html

Regards,


Björn

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ricardo_Ar=E1oz?=]

How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the
index.

If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would I do
that?

Thanks.

del a[1]
del a[-5]

 

[Erik Jones]

How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the
index.

If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would I do
that?

Thanks.

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>>> l = [1, 2, 3]
>>> del l[1]
>>> l

[1, 3]

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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ricardo_Ar=E1oz?=]

How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the
index.

If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would I do
that?

Thanks.

If you want to do it all at once :

del a[1:4:2]

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <[email protected]>,

How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the
index.

Note you can't do it with a string, since that's not mutable.