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On 03/26/2016 09:49 AM, beliavsky--- via Python-list wrote:
> I can use x[::n] to select every nth element of a list. Is there a one-liner to get a list that excludes every nth element?

Yes:

 >>> L=list(range(20))
 >>> [x   for i,x in enumerate(L)   if i%3 != 0]
[1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19]


Gary Herron


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