Remove an element from a list and return the truncated list

Question

I have:

inventory1=['AA','EA','RW','Others']

I need a list that contains all elements except 'Others'. In differing lists, the position of 'Others' is not fixed. Sometimes it is last, and at other times, it is somewhere else. The list above can contain a very large number of strings.

I tried,

inventory2=inventory1
inventory2.remove('Others')

Does not work.

inventory2=inventory1.remove('Others')

doesn't even return a list.

This should be simple to do. Yet, this is not working.

Answer 1

Just tried the following in Python3.5 (running it in terminal):

inventory1=['AA','EA','RW','Others']
inventory1.remove('Others')
inventory1

The output is:

['AA', 'EA', 'RW']

So, I don't see where the problem is, since it seems to work as intended. 'Others' gets removed. A more cumbersome way would be:

  inventory1=['AA','EA','RW','Others']
  del inventory1[inventory1.index('Others')]
  inventory1

The output is the same. For more information, see this post .