Removing a string from a list

Question

I create a list, and I want to remove a string from it.

Ex:

>>> myList = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']   
>>> myList = myList.remove('c')
>>> print(myList)
None

What am I doing wrong here? All I want is 'c' to be removed from myList!

Answer 1

I am not sure what a is (I am guessing another list), you should do myList.remove() alone, without assignment.

Example -

>>> myList = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>> myList.remove('c')
>>> myList
['a', 'b', 'd']

myList.remove() does not return anything, hence when you do myList = <anotherList>.remove(<something>) it sets myList to None

Answer 2

Remember that lists are mutable, so you can simply call remove on the list itself:

>>> myList = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>> myList.remove('c')
>>> myList
['a', 'b', 'd']

The reason you were getting None before is because remove() always returns None