I managed to find a working solution for this with list comprehensions. But I was curious as to why this works this way. Can someone explain?
Code:
def filter_ms_list(ms_list):
trash_suffix = ['C0', 'C1', 'C2', 'C3', 'C4']
temp_list = ms_list
for ms in temp_list:
for suffix in trash_suffix:
if ms.endswith(suffix):
ms_list.remove(ms)
break
return ms_list
ms_list = ['IJM612C0', 'IJM612C1', 'IJM612C2', 'IJM612C3', 'IJM666', 'IJM667']
Function returns ['IJM612C1', 'IJM612C3', 'IJM666', 'IJM667']
while it should return ['IJM666', 'IJM667']
While debugging I find that after removing 'IJM612C0' it jumps to 'IJM612C2' instead of the second element in the list.
At first I used the same list to remove and iterate, but even with the temp list, as you see, it doesn't work.
Can someone explain this? Thanks!
