Question

pop() is a method of lists...but I learnt that it's different than del because it "returns an arbitrary element from the set". That's what I don't get. What does "returning" the value mean??
I'm new but bear with me :D does it mean that if you pop (an element from the list) whilst printing it, it will print the 'popped' element.

[mylist = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
print mylist.pop(6)

And the output would be 6??
That is what returning mean??

Thanks in advance ;)

Answer 1

http://dpaste.com/796600/

a function usually returns something to the thing that called it

Answer 2

Well,returning means that `pop()` is actually a function. This function will delete 1 element of a list and return that element. So, if we want we can assign that element to a varible, while `del` only delete that element.

like:
```
mynumbers = [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]
last = mynumbers.pop()
```
then:
```
print mynumbers
>>> [1, 3, 5, 7]
print last
>>> 9
```
Nice, right?

Answer 3

I GOT IT! :D
Yeah! Super cool ;D
Thank you =)