How can I remove all instances of an element from a list in Python? [duplicate]

Answer 1

def remAll(L, item):
    answer = []
    for i in L:
        if i!=item:
            answer.append(i)
    return answer

Answer 2

pure python no modules version, or no list comp version ( simpler to understand ?)

>>> x = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2]
>>> for item in xrange(x.count(1)):
...     x.remove(1)
...
>>>
>>> x
[2, 3, 2]

can be made into a def pretty easily also

def removeThis(li,this):
    for item in xrange(li.count(this)):
           li.remove(this)
    return li