I am not sure if I can make myself clear but will try. I have a tuple in python which I go through as follows (see code below). While going through it, I maintain a counter (let's call it 'n') and 'pop' items that meet a certain condition. Now of course once I pop the first item, the numbering all goes wrong, how can I do what I want to do more elegantly while removing only certain entries of a tuple on the fly? for x in tupleX: n=0 if (condition): tupleX.pop(n) n=n+1 Continue reading...