In the following code, kind_num is used to count the integers with several different values in the integer list.

class Solution(object): def distributeCandies(self, candies): """ :type candies: List[int] :rtype: int """ loc = len(candies) mol = loc % 2 if not (2 <= loc <= 10000) or mol != 0: return 'wrong length of array' for num in candies: if not (-10000 <= num <= 10000): return 'wrong element in array' kind_num = 0 sis_num = loc / 2 for candy in candies: kind_num += 1 while True: try: candies.remove(candy) print candies except ValueError: break if kind_num > sis_num: return sis_num elif kind_num < sis_num: return kind_num else: return sis_num s = Solution() print s.distributeCandies([1,1,2,2,3,3])

But the second for loop exited early before completing the values in the candies. Why is this? ? ?