Difference between del, remove and pop on lists

Question

>>> a=[1,2,3]
>>> a.remove(2)
>>> a
[1, 3]
>>> a=[1,2,3]
>>> del a[1]
>>> a
[1, 3]
>>> a= [1,2,3]
>         


        

Answer 1

While pop and delete both take indices to remove an element as stated in above comments. A key difference is the time complexity for them. The time complexity for pop() with no index is O(1) but is not the same case for deletion of last element.

If your use case is always to delete the last element, it's always preferable to use pop() over delete(). For more explanation on time complexities, you can refer to https://www.ics.uci.edu/~pattis/ICS-33/lectures/complexitypython.txt