Ayaz Ahmed Khan wrote: > "kyosohma" typed: > >> If you want to get really fancy, you could do a list comprehension >> too: >> >> your_list = ["0024","haha","0024"] >> new_list = [i for i in your_list if i != '0024'] > > Or, just: > > In [1]: l = ["0024","haha","0024"] > In [2]: filter(lambda x: x != "0024", l) > Out[2]: ['haha']
Only if you want to make your code harder to read and slower:: $ python -m timeit -s "L = ['0024', 'haha', '0024']" "[i for i in L if i != '0024']" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.679 usec per loop $ python -m timeit -s "L = ['0024', 'haha', '0024']" "filter(lambda i: i != '1024', L)" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.38 usec per loop There really isn't much use for filter() anymore. Even in the one place I would have expected it to be faster, it's slower:: $ python -m timeit -s "L = ['', 'a', '', 'b']" "filter(None, L)" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.789 usec per loop $ python -m timeit -s "L = ['', 'a', '', 'b']" "[i for i in L if i]" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.739 usec per loop STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list