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I don't understand why this doesn't work
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can someone please explain to me why the third item in the list is not removed?

def alist(x):
    for i in x:
        if len(i) != 4:
            x.remove(i)
    return x


test = alist(['Yoda', '123', 'whyisthisnotremoved', 'testing', 'test', '', '1234'])
print(test)
Thanks

oh.. as I am looking at it:
Is it because when the first item is removed the index changes and moves the 3d item to index [1] in this case, while the for loop continues on with index 2 etc.. ?

I guess that might be it now that I think about it, but I would still like to hear the explanation from someone more experienced that my self. Because I could not figure it out otherwise.

If thats the case what would be a good solution for this to work as I intended?
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I don't understand why this doesn't work - by sandeen - Dec-19-2019, 07:18 PM

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