How do I remove the first item from a list?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4426...

Accepted answer links:
[here]: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datas...
[list.pop(index)]: https://www.programiz.com/python-program...
[del list[index]]: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datas...
[collections.deque]: http://docs.python.org/library/collectio...

Answer 3 links:
[here]: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastru...

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ANSWER 1

Slicing:

x = [0,1,2,3,4]
x = x[1:]

Which would actually return a subset of the original but not modify it.

>>> x = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> x.pop(0)
0

With list slicing, see the Python tutorial about lists for more details:

>>> l = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> l[1:]
[1, 2, 3, 4]

you would just do this

l = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
l.pop(0)

or l = l[1:]

Pros and Cons

Using pop you can retrieve the value

say x = l.pop(0) x would be 0