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Singly Linked List Deletion

Explore how to delete nodes in a singly linked list using Python. Understand deletion at the head, by value, and at the tail, and learn why linked list deletion can be more efficient than array deletion. This lesson equips you with practical coding skills for managing linked list data structures.

Introduction

The deletion operation combines principles from both insertion and search. It uses the search functionality to find the value in the list.

Deletion is one of the instances where linked lists are more efficient than arrays. In an array, you have to shift all the elements backward if one element is deleted. Even then, the ...