Elegant way to remove items from sequence in Python? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Here is my filter_inplace implementation that can be used to filter items from a list in-place, I came up with this on my own independently before finding this page. It is the same algorithm as what PabloG posted, just made more generic so you can use it to filter lists in place, it is also able to remove from the list based on the comparisonFunc if reversed is set True; a sort-of of reversed filter if you will.

def filter_inplace(conditionFunc, list, reversed=False):
    index = 0
    while index < len(list):
        item = list[index]

        shouldRemove = not conditionFunc(item)
        if reversed: shouldRemove = not shouldRemove

        if shouldRemove:
            list.remove(item)
        else:
            index += 1