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Re: Removing matching items from a list?

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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.
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> For example, what I want is:
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> let's say there is a list:
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> pHands[0] = ['ad', 'ac', 'as', 'ah', '7d', '8s', '9d', 'td', 'js', 'jd']
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> So up there, my list, which is named pHands[0] has ten items in it.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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. 

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Removing matching items from a list? kevin4fong@gmail.com - 2013-08-03 13:12 -0700
  Re: Removing matching items from a list? kevin4fong@gmail.com - 2013-08-03 13:16 -0700
  Re: Removing matching items from a list? woooee@gmail.com - 2013-08-03 13:27 -0700
  Re: Removing matching items from a list? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-03 17:02 -0400
  Re: Removing matching items from a list? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-08-03 22:06 +0100
  Re: Removing matching items from a list? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-03 22:37 +0000
    Re: Removing matching items from a list? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-03 19:06 -0400
      Re: Removing matching items from a list? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-04 00:35 +0100
      Re: Removing matching items from a list? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-04 00:25 +0000
        Re: Removing matching items from a list? kevin4fong@gmail.com - 2013-08-03 17:33 -0700
        Re: Removing matching items from a list? kevin4fong@gmail.com - 2013-08-03 17:34 -0700
    Re: Removing matching items from a list? kevin4fong@gmail.com - 2013-08-03 17:23 -0700
    Re: Removing matching items from a list? kevin4fong@gmail.com - 2013-08-03 17:29 -0700
      Re: Removing matching items from a list? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-04 00:40 +0000
    Re: Removing matching items from a list? kevin4fong@gmail.com - 2013-08-03 17:32 -0700
  Re: Removing matching items from a list? kevin4fong@gmail.com - 2013-08-03 17:33 -0700
    Re: Removing matching items from a list? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-04 01:53 +0000

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