Why is the output of this code in such manner?

Question

mylist = [i for i in range(8)]

for i in mylist:
mylist.remove(i)

print(sum(mylist))

Answer 1

ravilnicki

I do use print to to assess and check my code and its output all the time

And if I understand your explanation well, in every iteration, remove() method deals with the index of items in a list rather than the item itself, and also remembers the index of where it stopped to carry on to the next?

Answer 2

ravilnicki when you say first occurrence, what does it mean? 'Cause obviously the list doesn't contain 2 or more occurrences of the same character. Kindly elaborate pls 'cause it really seems remove is trying its best not to remove an item in same index as before

Answer 3

ravilnicki But there is only occurrence of each character in the list...

I kinda need an explicit answer to quench my thirst for one lol

Answer 4

ravilnicki sorry if I'm bothering you, I think I get it now.

for loop checks every item at a particular index once as you've stated...so remove just does its own job of removing first occurrences.

I realized my mistake now.

Thanks for your assistance 🙂🤝