How can I ignore ValueError when I try to remove an element from a list?
A good and thread-safe way to do this is to just try it and ignore the exception: try: a.remove(10) except ValueError: pass # do nothing!
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Best way to get child nodes
Sounds like you’re overthinking it. You’ve observed the difference between childNodes and children, which is that childNodes contains all nodes, including text nodes consisting entirely of whitespace, while children is a collection of just the child nodes that are elements. That’s really all there is to it. There is nothing unpredictable about either collection, although … Read more