deleting select items from a list

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one of the ways could include for x in range(len(the_list)-1,-1,-1): (i like variable name x, think: index). if i delete the_list[x] inside the body of this for loop

Yes to make code more ugly and less readable could do that 🧺

names = ["Alice", "Bob", "Andrew", "Charlie"]
for item in range(len(names)-1,-1,-1):
    if not names[item].startswith('A'):
        del names[item]
print(names)

Output:
['Alice', 'Andrew']

It's faster than remove() solution,but still slower than:

names = ["Alice", "Bob", "Andrew", "Charlie"]
names = [name for name in names if name.startswith('A')]
print(names)

Output:
['Alice', 'Andrew']

If think in place is cool,so is there a way with this the last one.

names = ["Alice", "Bob", "Andrew", "Charlie"]
print(id(names))
names[:] = [name for name in names if name.startswith('A')]
print(names)
print(id(names))

Output:
2496125597184
['Alice', 'Andrew']
2496125597184