.remove()
Published May 5, 2021Updated Oct 13, 2023
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The .remove()
method removes an item from a list by passing in the value of the item to be removed as an argument.
Syntax
list.remove(item)
In the case where two or more elements in the list have the same value, the first occurrence of the element is removed.
Example
inventory = ['⚽', '🏀', '⚾️', '🎾', '🏐']inventory.remove('⚾️')print(inventory)# Output: ['⚽', '🏀', '🎾', '🏐']
Codebyte Example
To remove the first occurrence of 'eggs'
:
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