Python: list: pop: remove last element in the list

list.pop([i])

‘pop’ method without argument removes last element in the list. If you specify the position ‘i’, it removes the element at position ‘i’ and return it.

test.py

list=[2, 4, 6, 6, 4, 2]
print(list)

print("Removing last element ", list.pop())
print(list)

print("Removing element at index 2 ", list.pop(2))
print(list)

$ python3 test.py

[2, 4, 6, 6, 4, 2]

Removing last element  2

[2, 4, 6, 6, 4]

Removing element at index 2  6

[2, 4, 6, 4]

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