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Programming FAQ: fix a punctuaction typo
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Add a missing question mark to title
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Expand Up @@ -1227,12 +1227,13 @@ into a list.


How do you remove multiple items from a list
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How do you remove multiple items from a list?
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As with removing duplicates, explicitly iterating in reverse with a
delete condition is one possibility. However, it is easier and faster
to use slice replacement with an implicit or explicit forward iteration.
Here are three variations.::
Here are three variations::

mylist[:] = filter(keep_function, mylist)
mylist[:] = (x for x in mylist if keep_condition)
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