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chris wilson
745 PointsNot sure how to complete this excercise...
It says "Ugh, I made this list and now it has some invalid pieces in it. Maybe you can help me clean it up. Use the .remove() method to remove the last item from the list, please."
states = [
'ACTIVE',
['red', 'green', 'blue'],
'CANCELLED',
'FINISHED',
5,
]
2 Answers
Ary de Oliveira
28,298 Pointsstates.remove(5)
Hannu Shemeikka
16,799 PointsHi,
The task requires you to remove the last item from the list. This can be achieved in several ways and here's one:
states = [
'ACTIVE',
['red', 'green', 'blue'],
'CANCELLED',
'FINISHED',
5,
]
# remove-method requires an integer which tells which index-position is going to be removed from the list
states.remove(len(states)) # Uses the len-function to get the number of items in the list
# or
states.remove(4)
This should work.
chris wilson
745 PointsAwesome, thanks!
Hannu Shemeikka
16,799 PointsOops..
I made a small mistake here. I forgot that remove-method doesn't take index-value but the actual value instead.
From the docs "Remove the first item from the list whose value is x. It is an error if there is no such item."
So the code should be
states.remove(5)