How to remove an element from a list by index

Question

How do I remove an element from a list by index in Python?

I found the list.remove method, but say I want to remove the last element, how do I do this?

Answer 1

It has already been mentioned how to remove a single element from a list and which advantages the different methods have. Note, however, that removing multiple elements has some potential for errors:

>>> l = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
>>> indices=[3,7]
>>> for i in indices:
...     del l[i]
... 
>>> l
[0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9]

Elements 3 and 8 (not 3 and 7) of the original list have been removed (as the list was shortened during the loop), which might not have been the intention. If you want to safely remove multiple indices you should instead delete the elements with highest index first, e.g. like this:

>>> l = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
>>> indices=[3,7]
>>> for i in sorted(indices, reverse=True):
...     del l[i]
... 
>>> l
[0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9]