remove input from a list in PYTHON - new to programming

Question

I am trying to remove user input from the list I have made but can't get it to work.

New to programming in general :|

text = ["Menu1_test", "Menu2_test", "Menu3_test", "Menu4_test", "Menu 5_test"]

text_remove = input("What do you want removed?")


def text_remover(text, text_remove):

     i = 0         
     for w in text:
        text.remove(text_remove[i])
        i=i+1
        print(w+" removed")

text_remover(text, text_remove)
print (text)

`text_remove` is not an array you can't call it on i'th position like`text_remove[i]`, input gives you just a single string. — Klaus, Jul 23 '15 at 12:58
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@KlausPrinoth: There are various errors in the OP code, but in isolation `text_remove[i]` is a valid construction. `text_remove` is a string and `text_remove[i]` is the `i`th character of that string. — PM 2Ring, Jul 23 '15 at 13:07
@PM2Ring oh i didn't know that this works, but why does then exist the function `list()` that makes a char array out of a string: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4978792/4999641 — Klaus, Jul 23 '15 at 13:34
@KlausPrinoth: Python has various types of built-in sequence objects with different properties for different purposes. a `str` is an immutable sequence object of chars, so you can't change the chars in it. A `list` is a general-purpose sequence object so it can contain anything, and it's mutable, so you _can_ change its contents. A `tuple` is also general-purpose but like a `str` it's immutable. — PM 2Ring, Jul 23 '15 at 13:40
Does this answer your question? [Difference between del, remove and pop on lists](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11520492/difference-between-del-remove-and-pop-on-lists) — Georgy, Jun 21 '20 at 14:05

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 23 '15 at 13:01

try this https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists

read the functions available for lists and try them out,

text = ["Menu1_test", "Menu2_test", "Menu3_test", "Menu4_test", "Menu 5_test"]

text_remove = input("What do you want removed?")

def text_remover(text, text_remove):

    text.remove(text_remove)

text_remover(text, text_remove)
print (text)

remove input from a list in PYTHON - new to programming

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