On Saturday, August 3, 2013 1:12:55 PM UTC-7, kevin...@gmail.com wrote: > Basically, I'm trying to find out how to remove matching items from a list. > But there doesn't seem to be any information on how to go about doing this > specific function. > > > > For example, what I want is: > > > > let's say there is a list: > > > > pHands[0] = ['ad', 'ac', 'as', 'ah', '7d', '8s', '9d', 'td', 'js', 'jd'] > > > > So up there, my list, which is named pHands[0] has ten items in it. > > > > I'm trying to make a function where a search is initiated into the list and > any matching items with a first matching number/letter reaching four are > removed > > > > So in the end, ad, ac, as, ah (the four a's) will all be deleted/removed from > the list. I need the list to automatically detect if there are four matching > first letter/numbers in the items in the list. > > > > The remaining list will be: pHands[0] = ['7d', '8s', '9d', 'td', 'js', 'jd']
Thank you for the advice. It was really helpful with the descriptions and steps. Would you also happen to know how I could set up a list that keeps track of the removed sets? Let's say there's 4 a's taken out. The list would show: ['a'] But if there was also 4 j's in addition to the 4 a's, it would go: ['a', 'j'] and so forth. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list