You need to do this in a loop, there is no built-in operation to remove a number of indexes at once.
Your example is actually a contiguous sequence of indexes, so you can do this:
del my_list[2:6]
which removes the slice starting at 2 and ending just before 6.
It isn't clear from your question whether in general you need to remove an arbitrary collection of indexes, or if it will always be a contiguous sequence.
If you have an arbitrary collection of indexes, then:
indexes = [2, 3, 5]
for index in sorted(indexes, reverse=True):
del my_list[index]
Note that you need to delete them in reverse order so that you don't throw off the subsequent indexes.
remove_indices = [1,2,3]
somelist = [i for j, i in enumerate(somelist) if j not in remove_indices]
Example:
In [9]: remove_indices = [1,2,3]
In [10]: somelist = range(10)
In [11]: somelist = [i for j, i in enumerate(somelist) if j not in remove_indices]
In [12]: somelist
Out[12]: [0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
for x in range(len(yourlist)):
print '%s: %s' % (x, yourlist[x])
Then, call this function with a list of the indexes of elements you want to pop. It's robust enough that the order of the list doesn't matter.
def multipop(yourlist, itemstopop):
result = []
itemstopop.sort()
itemstopop = itemstopop[::-1]
for x in itemstopop:
result.append(yourlist.pop(x))
return result
As a bonus, result should only contain elements you wanted to remove.
There wasn't much hint on performance for the different ways so I performed a test on removing 5000 items from 50000 in all 3 generally different approaches, and for me numpy was the winner (if you have elements that fit in numpy):
7.5 sec for the enumerated list comprehension [4.5 sec on another PC]
0.08 sec for deleting items in reverse order [0.017 (!) sec]
0.009 sec for numpy.delete [0.006 sec]
Here's the code I timed (in the third function conversion from/to list may be removed if working directly on numpy arrays is ok):
import time
import numpy as np
import random
def del_list_indexes(l, id_to_del):
somelist = [i for j, i in enumerate(l) if j not in id_to_del]
return somelist
def del_list_inplace(l, id_to_del):
for i in sorted(id_to_del, reverse=True):
del(l[i])
def del_list_numpy(l, id_to_del):
arr = np.array(l, dtype='int32')
return list(np.delete(arr, id_to_del))
l = range(50000)
random.shuffle(l)
remove_id = random.sample(range(len(l)), 5000) # 10% ==> 5000
# ...