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Brian Hudson
14,785 PointsChallenge 2 of 2: "And, finally, we need to remove that 2. Can you delete it with del, too? Thanks!"
I know this can be solved with
messy = [5, 2, 8, 1, 3]
del messy[2]
del messy[1]
But the code challenge won't accept an index value of -4 as correct also:
messy = [5, 2, 8, 1, 3]
del messy[2]
del messy[-4]
I ran this in my terminal and it worked...thinking it's just a glitch in Workspaces. But just in case I'm wrong I wanted to point it out...am I missing something?
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,427 PointsKeep in mind that after the first del the indexes of the list items shift. The two solutions produce different results:
# Your first example
>>> messy = [5, 2, 8, 1, 3]
>>> del messy[2]
>>> messy
[5, 2, 1, 3]
>>> del messy[1]
>>> messy
[5, 1, 3]
# Your Second example
>>> messy = [5, 2, 8, 1, 3]
>>> del messy[2]
>>> messy
[5, 2, 1, 3]
>>> del messy[-4]
>>> messy
[2, 1, 3]