There is a way to remove an item from a list given its index instead
of its value: the \keyword{del} statement. This differs from the
-\method{pop()}) method which returns a value. The \keyword{del}
+\method{pop()} method which returns a value. The \keyword{del}
statement can also be used to remove slices from a list or clear the
entire list (which we did earlier by assignment of an empty list to
the slice). For example: