Question

I’m trying to remove an item from a list; but the item I’m trying to remove is located just before an
index(' '). How can I pop() the item from this list?

Answer 1

You can give pop an index as its argument:

>>> lst = ['a', 'b', 'c', ' ', 'd']
>>> lst.pop(lst.index(' ') - 1)
'c'
>>> lst
['a', 'b', ' ', 'd']

Of course you have to make sure that the item ' ' has an index >= 1 before. If you don’t need the removed value, you can use del lst[index] instead.