More efficient way to delete list item with index Python

Question

More efficient way to delete list item with index Python

What is a more efficient alternative to:

    del List[List.index(aString)]

Answer 1

You can use list.remove as below

x = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'a']
x.remove('a')
print(x)
# ['b', 'c', 'a']

x.remove('d')
# ValueError

Note that if there is no 'd' in your list then it will throw a ValueError, you could get around this by using a try...except... block

try:
    x.remove('d')
except ValueError:
    pass