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Remove all the elements from list x that don't satisfy the predicate p, without allocating a new list.
Keep all the elements that do satisfy p.

For languages that don't have mutable lists, refer to idiom #57 instead.
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del_count = 0
for i in range(len(x)):
    if not p(x[i - del_count]):
        del x[i - del_count]
        del_count += 1

This is O(n^2)