Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Exclude every nth element from list? Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 18:06:40 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <94237154-22af-4e64-85ee-9b4cf334fa6f@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de WxFHOu389GSCE+RkS5eJdAGiMj7YFj5KP/O6C4z380pQ== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.005 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'excludes': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:dip0.t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'received:t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'element': 0.18; 'select': 0.23; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'subject:list': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'list': 0.34; 'there': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'list.': 0.37; 'subject:from': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'received:de': 0.40; 'python-list': 0.66 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p57bd994a.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: KNode/4.13.3 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:105771 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? del x[::n] ;)