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Ethan
Ethan

Reputation: 13

How to delete elements of one list given they are deleted from another?

Suppose you have two lists:

x = [Jack, John, Suzie, Bill, James]
y = [93, 88, 100, 72, 82]

I have written a code to average the numbers in y, and remove all numbers below that average. Is there a way to also delete the corresponding names in list x as well?

So, if 88, 72, and 82 were removed from y, how can I use that to remove John, Bill, and James from list x?

Here is a snippet of my current code:

  newName = nameList + listName
  newGrade = gradeList + listGrade
  print(newName)
  print(newGrade)
  avg = getAverage(newGrade)
  print('The average of the list is:', avg)
  gradeAvg = [i for i in newGrade if i > avg]
  nameAvg =

I have isolated all elements in gradeAvg, and need to take those same ones out from nameAvg.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 56

Answers (3)

Demnofocus
Demnofocus

Reputation: 31

You could also try to use dictionaries.

Try looking into this https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries

But if you need to do with separate lists, you could compare their indexes. That is, get the index of 88 in list y and remove the value at same index from x.

Check this for finding index Finding the index of an item in a list

Upvotes: 0

twingoof
twingoof

Reputation: 9

To do that just keep the index of the deleted value in y and then remove the value at the same index in x. Like this:

x = ['Bill' , 'Bob', 'Jane', 'Karen']
y = [12, 24, 19, 45]

for element in enumerate(y):
    if element[1] < your_value:
        del y[element[0]]
        del x[element[0]]

Upvotes: 0

Pedro Lobito
Pedro Lobito

Reputation: 98941

You an use:

x = [v for k,v in zip(y,x) if k > 90] # 90 or whatever number you want.
# ['Jack', 'Suzie']

Demo

Upvotes: 1

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