How to remove multiple indexes from a list at the same time? [duplicate]

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You need to do this in a loop, there is no built-in operation to remove a number of indexes at once.

Your example is actually a contiguous sequence of indexes, so you can do this:

del my_list[2:6]

which removes the slice starting at 2 and ending just before 6.

It isn’t clear from your question whether in general you need to remove an arbitrary collection of indexes, or if it will always be a contiguous sequence.

If you have an arbitrary collection of indexes, then:

indexes = [2, 3, 5]
for index in sorted(indexes, reverse=True):
    del my_list[index]

Note that you need to delete them in reverse order so that you don’t throw off the subsequent indexes.

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