Remove all occurrences of a value from a list?

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00:00 Remove All Occurrences Of A Value From A List?
00:16 Answer 1 Score 287
00:28 Accepted Answer Score 723
00:48 Answer 3 Score 148
01:03 Answer 4 Score 53
01:12 Thank you

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1157...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 723

Functional approach:

Python 3.x

>>> x = [1,2,3,2,2,2,3,4]
>>> list(filter((2).__ne__, x))
[1, 3, 3, 4]

>>> x = [1,2,3,2,2,2,3,4]
>>> list(filter(lambda a: a != 2, x))
[1, 3, 3, 4]

>>> [i for i in x if i != 2]

Python 2.x

>>> x = [1,2,3,2,2,2,3,4]
>>> filter(lambda a: a != 2, x)
[1, 3, 3, 4]

ANSWER 2

Score 287

You can use a list comprehension:

def remove_values_from_list(the_list, val):
   return [value for value in the_list if value != val]

x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3]
x = remove_values_from_list(x, 2)
print x
# [1, 3, 4, 3]

ANSWER 3

Score 148

You can use slice assignment if the original list must be modified, while still using an efficient list comprehension (or generator expression).

>>> x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3]
>>> x[:] = (value for value in x if value != 2)
>>> x
[1, 3, 4, 3]

ANSWER 4

Score 53

Repeating the solution of the first post in a more abstract way:

>>> x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3]
>>> while 2 in x: x.remove(2)
>>> x
[1, 3, 4, 3]