I'm trying to write a for loop in python to pop out all the items in a list but two, so I tried this:

guest = ['john', 'phil', 'andy', 'mark', 'frank', 'joe']for people in guest:popped_guest = guest.pop()print("I am sorry " + popped_guest + " I can no longer invite you to dinner")

And, this is what I get when I run it:

I am sorry joe I can no longer invite you to dinnerI am sorry frank I can no longer invite you to dinnerI am sorry mark I can no longer invite you to dinner

So, it only pops the 3 but is there a way to get it to pop 4 of the 6? I tried adding an if statement:

guest = ['john', 'phil', 'andy', 'mark', 'frank', 'joe']for people in guest:if people > guest[1]:popped_guest = guest.pop()print("I am sorry " + popped_guest + " I can no longer invite you to dinner")

I would have thought since that 'phil' would be 1 that it would pop the last 4 but when I ran the program it returned nothing. So, is it possible to do in one for loop?

If you want to pop 4 things, then just count to 4

for _ in range(4):popped_guest = guest.pop()print("I am sorry " + popped_guest + " I can no longer invite you to dinner")