How to remove multiple items from a list, not just access them

Question

removed_card = random.sample(deck, 5)

This is allowing me to access the values in the list, but it will leave them in the list. How do I make it where I can remove multiple items from the list at once?

Answer 1

This probably isnt the best way, but you can instead pick 5 indices inside of your list and pop those indices:

removed_cards = []
    for _ in range(5):
        removed_cards.append(deck.pop(randint(len(deck))))

list.pop(i) removes the item at index i. You can't do a list comprehension this way since deck.pop will be changing the length of deck which would cause index errors.

Answer 2

You have to use the remove() function and remove it from the list like so:

import random

cards = random.sample(deck, 5)
cards.remove(deck)

I can't be sure if it works because I don't know what 'deck' is.