Helmut Jarausch: > The clear winner is > > def del_by_key(L,key) : > for pos, (k,d) in enumerate(L): > if k == key : > del L[pos] > break
If you use Psyco this is faster: def del_by_key(L,key): pos = 0 for pair in L: if pair[0] == key : del L[pos] break pos += 1 Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list