How to delete last item in list?

Question

I have this program that calculates the time taken to answer a specific question and quits out of the while loop when the answer is incorrect, but i want to delete the last calculation, so I can call min() and it not be the wrong time, sorry if this is confusing.

from time import time 

q = input('What do you want to type? ') 

a = ' ' 

record = [] 

while a != '': 

start = time() 

a = input('Type: ') 

end = time() 

v = end-start 

record.append(v) 

if a == q: 

print('Time taken to type name: {:.2f}'.format(v)) else: 

break 

for i in record: 

print('{:.2f} seconds.'.format(i))

Answer 1

You can use the slicing notation to keep everything except the last item:

record = record[:-1]

But a better way is to delete the item directly:

del record[-1]