How to remove list elements in a for loop in Python? [duplicate]

Answer 1

import copy

a = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]

b = copy.copy(a)

for item in a:
    print item
    b.remove(item)
a = copy.copy(b)

Works: to avoid changing the list you are iterating on, you make a copy of a, iterate over it and remove the items from b. Then you copy b (the altered copy) back to a.