I am not sure if I can make myself clear but will try I have a tuple in python which I go through as follows see code below While going through it I maintain a counter let s call it n and pop items that meet a certain condition Now of course once I pop the first item the numbering all goes wrong how can I do what I want to do more elegantly while removing only certain entries of a tuple on the fly for x in tupleX n 0 if condition tupleX pop n n n 1

pop/remove items out of a python tuple

As DSM mentions, tuple's are immutable, but even for lists, a more elegant solution is to use filter:

tupleX = filter(str.isdigit, tupleX)

or, if condition is not a function, use a comprehension:

tupleX = [x for x in tupleX if x > 5]

if you really need tupleX to be a tuple, use a generator expression and pass that to tuple:

tupleX = tuple(x for x in tupleX if condition)

~ Answered on 2014-02-10 16:45:41