How do I remove the first item from a list?

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00:00 How Do I Remove The First Item From A List?
00:12 Accepted Answer Score 1659
00:53 Answer 2 Score 268
01:03 Answer 3 Score 65
01:13 Answer 4 Score 39
01:25 Answer 5 Score 36
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4426...

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ANSWER 1

Score 270

Slicing:

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

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

ANSWER 2

Score 66

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

ANSWER 3

Score 40

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

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

ANSWER 4

Score 36

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