<s>[INST] Remove empty strings from a list of strings I want to remove all empty strings from a list of strings in python.
My idea looks like this:
while '' in str_list:
    str_list.remove('')

Is there any more pythonic way to do this?
 [/INST] I would use filter:
str_list = filter(None, str_list) # fastest
str_list = filter(bool, str_list) # fastest
str_list = filter(len, str_list)  # a bit of slower
str_list = filter(lambda item: item, str_list) # slower than list comprehension

Python 3 returns an iterator from filter, so should be wrapped in a call to list()
str_list = list(filter(None, str_list)) # fastest

(etc.)
Tests:
>>> timeit('filter(None, str_list)', 'str_list=["a"]*1000', number=100000)
2.4797441959381104
>>> timeit('filter(bool, str_list)', 'str_list=["a"]*1000', number=100000)
2.4788150787353516
>>> timeit('filter(len, str_list)', 'str_list=["a"]*1000', number=100000)
5.2126238346099854
>>> timeit('[x for x in str_list if x]', 'str_list=["a"]*1000', number=100000)
13.354584932327271
>>> timeit('filter(lambda item: item, str_list)', 'str_list=["a"]*1000', number=100000)
17.427681922912598

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