Remove a word in a span from SpaCy?

Question

I am parsing a sentence with Spacy like following:

import spacy
nlp = spacy.load(\"en\")
span = nlp(\"This is some text.\")

I am wondering

Answer 1

The other answer requires you to lose POS information.

def remove_i_element_from_span(span, index):
  nlp_list = list(span)
  del nlp_list[index]
  return nlp(" ".join([e.text for e in nlp_list]))