Removing a string from a list

Question

I create a list, and I want to remove a string from it.

Ex:

>>> myList = [\'a\', \'b\', \'c\', \'d\']   
>>> myList = myList.remove         


        

Answer 1

Remember that lists are mutable, so you can simply call remove on the list itself:

>>> myList = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>> myList.remove('c')
>>> myList
['a', 'b', 'd']

The reason you were getting None before is because remove() always returns None

Answer 2

Just an addition to Anand's Answer,

mylist = mylist.remove('c')

The above code will return 'none' as the return type for my list. So you want to keep it as

mylist.remove('c')

Answer 3

I am not sure what a is (I am guessing another list), you should do myList.remove() alone, without assignment.

Example -

>>> myList = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>> myList.remove('c')
>>> myList
['a', 'b', 'd']

myList.remove() does not return anything, hence when you do myList = <anotherList>.remove(<something>) it sets myList to None

Answer 4

The remove() function doesn't return anything, it modifies the list in place. If you don't assign it to a variable you will see that myList doesn't contain c anymore.