Remove()

[metro17]

After a successful remove() operation the list autosizes to one less element .Can we add a default value to the position from where the element was removed so that the length of list remains the same even after the element was removed?

Thanks

[Gribouillis]

You'll need two lines

k = thelist.index(elt)
thelist[k] = "Spam"

or

thelist[thelist.index(elt)] = "Spam"

[buran]

Just don't use list.remove() method for this
Instead, if you want to replace value in the list with "default" value

>>> spam = [1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> spam[2] = None # assuming None is "default" value
>>> spam
[1, 2, None, 4]
>>> spam[:2] = ['foo', 'bar']
>>> spam
['foo', 'bar', None, 4]