diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst index 6f9dfa8616ed44..138a5ca7a7516f 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst @@ -1226,13 +1226,13 @@ This converts the list into a set, thereby removing duplicates, and then back into a list. -How do you remove multiple items from a list --------------------------------------------- +How do you remove multiple items from a list? +--------------------------------------------- As with removing duplicates, explicitly iterating in reverse with a delete condition is one possibility. However, it is easier and faster to use slice replacement with an implicit or explicit forward iteration. -Here are three variations.:: +Here are three variations:: mylist[:] = filter(keep_function, mylist) mylist[:] = (x for x in mylist if keep_condition)