Remove during iteration quadratic
Review this Python function that prunes archived items from an in-memory list. Profiling shows it dominates a nightly job when the list has hundreds of thousands of items.
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1def prune_archived(items):
2 for item in list(items):
3 if item.archived:
4 items.remove(item)
5 return items
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