How to remove every occurrence of sub-list from list

Question

I have two lists:

big_list = [2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4]
sub_list = [1, 2]

I want to remove all sub_list occurrences in big_list.

result

Answer 1

Try del and slicing. The worst time complexity is O(N^2).

sub_list=['a', int]
big_list=[1, 'a', int, 3, float, 'a', int, 5]
i=0
while i < len(big_list):
    if big_list[i:i+len(sub_list)]==sub_list:
        del big_list[i:i+len(sub_list)]
    else:
        i+=1

print(big_list)

result:

[1, 3, , 5]