{"id":4467,"date":"2019-01-29T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.csestack.org\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2021-07-12T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T11:28:02","slug":"difference-between-remove-del-pop-python-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csestack.org\/difference-between-remove-del-pop-python-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference Between remove del and pop in Python List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We all know,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csestack.org\/python-list\/\">Python list<\/a>\u00a0is a very important data type. We use it very frequently in our code and perform various operations on the Python list, like adding elements, updating elements and deleting elements from the Python list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this tutorial, we are going to cover the following points in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>3 methods to remove an element from the list<\/li><li>What is the difference between these three methods?<\/li><li>Which one you should use?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I have also explained these points in our CSEstack YouTube Channel. (Don\u2019t forget to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCw0a__B0eJsvCujkSIfLTAA?sub_confirmation=1\">subscribe our YouTube channel<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"[3 Ways] How to remove element\/item from Python list? 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When you want to remove or delete any elements from the Python&nbsp;list, you do think- What is the difference between remove, del and pop in Python List and which one to use?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s see,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">How to delete or remove the element from the list?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 3 different ways of removing or deleting elements from the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us check one by one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. remove()<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes,&nbsp;<code>remove()<\/code>&nbsp;removes the first matching value\/object. It does not do anything with the indexing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-codemirror-blocks-code-block code-block\"><pre class=\"CodeMirror\" data-setting=\"{&quot;showPanel&quot;:true,&quot;languageLabel&quot;:&quot;language&quot;,&quot;fullScreenButton&quot;:true,&quot;copyButton&quot;:true,&quot;mode&quot;:&quot;python&quot;,&quot;mime&quot;:&quot;text\/x-python&quot;,&quot;theme&quot;:&quot;material&quot;,&quot;lineNumbers&quot;:true,&quot;styleActiveLine&quot;:true,&quot;lineWrapping&quot;:false,&quot;readOnly&quot;:false,&quot;fileName&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;Python&quot;,&quot;maxHeight&quot;:&quot;400px&quot;,&quot;modeName&quot;:&quot;python&quot;}\">myList = [1, 2, 3, 2] \n \nmyList.remove(2) \n \nprint(myList) #[1, 3, 2]<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to remove all the occurrences of an element in the list, you need to loop over all elements. Check the element and remove it if it is present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"del\">2. del list[]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><code>del<\/code>&nbsp;removes the item at a specific index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-codemirror-blocks-code-block code-block\"><pre class=\"CodeMirror\" data-setting=\"{&quot;showPanel&quot;:true,&quot;languageLabel&quot;:&quot;language&quot;,&quot;fullScreenButton&quot;:true,&quot;copyButton&quot;:true,&quot;mode&quot;:&quot;python&quot;,&quot;mime&quot;:&quot;text\/x-python&quot;,&quot;theme&quot;:&quot;material&quot;,&quot;lineNumbers&quot;:true,&quot;styleActiveLine&quot;:true,&quot;lineWrapping&quot;:false,&quot;readOnly&quot;:false,&quot;fileName&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;Python&quot;,&quot;maxHeight&quot;:&quot;400px&quot;,&quot;modeName&quot;:&quot;python&quot;}\">myList = [3, 2, 2, 1] \n \ndel myList[1] \n \nprint(myList) #[3, 2, 1]<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: You can also delete the entire list using <code>del<\/code> keyword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"pop\">3. pop()<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>And pop removes the item at a specific index and returns it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-codemirror-blocks-code-block code-block\"><pre class=\"CodeMirror\" data-setting=\"{&quot;showPanel&quot;:true,&quot;languageLabel&quot;:&quot;language&quot;,&quot;fullScreenButton&quot;:true,&quot;copyButton&quot;:true,&quot;mode&quot;:&quot;python&quot;,&quot;mime&quot;:&quot;text\/x-python&quot;,&quot;theme&quot;:&quot;material&quot;,&quot;lineNumbers&quot;:true,&quot;styleActiveLine&quot;:true,&quot;lineWrapping&quot;:false,&quot;readOnly&quot;:false,&quot;fileName&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;Python&quot;,&quot;maxHeight&quot;:&quot;400px&quot;,&quot;modeName&quot;:&quot;python&quot;}\">myList = [4, 3, 5] \n \nmyList.pop(1) \n \nprint(myList) #[4, 5]<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"difference\">Difference Between remove, del and pop in Python list<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><code>remove()<\/code>&nbsp;delete the matching element\/object whereas&nbsp;<code>del<\/code>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<code>pop<\/code>&nbsp;removes the element at a specific index.<\/li><li>&nbsp;<code>del<\/code>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<code>pop<\/code>&nbsp;deals with the index. The only difference between the two is that-&nbsp;<code>pop<\/code>&nbsp;return deleted the value from the list and&nbsp;<code>del<\/code>&nbsp;does not return anything.<\/li><li><code>Pop<\/code>&nbsp;is the only way that returns the object.<\/li><li><code>Remove<\/code>&nbsp;is the only one that searches objects (not index).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"best-way\">Which is the best way to delete the element in the List?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If you want to delete a specific object in the list, use&nbsp;<code>remove<\/code>&nbsp;method.<\/li><li>If you want to delete&nbsp;the object at a specific location (index) in the list, you can either use&nbsp;<code>del<\/code>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<code>pop<\/code>.<\/li><li>Use the&nbsp;<code>pop<\/code>, if you want to delete and get the object at the specific location.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You don\u2019t need to import any extra module to use these methods to remove an element from the list.<\/li><li>You can not use these methods with a tuple as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csestack.org\/difference-tuple-list-python\/\">Python tuple is different from the list<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>FAQs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1622052081697\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">How to remove an element from the Python list by Index?<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">To remove an element from the Python list by index, use the keyword del or pop() method.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1622052158955\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\">What is the difference between pop() and remove()<\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">&#8211; The pop() uses the index to remove the element. To remove an element from the list using remove(), you have to provide the element itself.<br\/>&#8211; Unlike remove(), pop() method return element which is removed from the Python list. <br\/>&#8211; Check the code explained above as an example.<br\/><br\/>These are the main differences between pop() and remove().<\/p> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Program for Practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Write a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csestack.org\/unique-elements-from-list-in-python\/\">Python program to find all the unique objects<\/a>&nbsp;in the list and delete all the duplicate objects.<\/li><li>Write a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csestack.org\/how-to-get-user-input-in-python\/\">Python program to take the user input<\/a>&nbsp;value and delete it from the list.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope this clears your doubt.&nbsp; Onwards, I am sure you will use the appropriate method to remove or delete the object from the Python list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Write a comment if you have any points to discuss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Happy Pythoning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between remove del and pop? 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