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

Kinda different approach in Python 2.x!

from more_itertools import locate, windowed
big_list = [1, 2, 1, 2, 1]
sub_list = [1, 2, 1]

"""
Fetching all starting point of indexes (of sub_list in big_list)
to be removed from big_list. 
"""

i = list(locate(windowed(big_list, len(sub_list)), pred=lambda x: x==tuple(sub_list)))

""" 
Here i comes out to be [0, 2] in above case. But index from 2 which 
includes 1, 2, 1 has last 1 from the 1st half of 1, 2, 1 so further code is
to handle this case.
PS: this won't come for-
big_list = [2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4]
sub_list = [1, 2]
as here i comes out to be [1, 4]
"""

# The further code.
to_pop = []
for ele in i:
    if to_pop:
        if ele == to_pop[-1]:
            continue
    to_pop.extend(range(ele, ele+len(sub_list)))

# Voila! to_pop consists of all the indexes to be removed from big_list.

# Wiping out the elements!
for index in sorted(to_pop, reverse=True):
    del big_list[index]

Note that you need to delete them in reverse order so that you don't throw off the subsequent indexes.

In Python3, signature of locate() will differ.