how to fix TypeError: ‘range‘ object doesn‘t support item deletion

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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-144-f67543662eb4> in <module>
----> 1 weights=logRegres.stocGradAscent1(dataArr,labelMat)

D:\maxwelllearning\maxwellhandon\machine learning in action\cp05\logRegres.py in stocGradAscent1(dataMatrix, classLabels, numIter)
     88             error = classLabels[randIndex] - h
     89             weights = weights + alpha * error * dataMatrix[randIndex]
---> 90             del(dataIndex[randIndex])
     91     return weights

TypeError: 'range' object doesn't support item deletion

Original Code :

def stocGradAscent1(dataMatrix, classLabels,numIter=150):
    dataMatrix=np.array(dataMatrix)
    m,n = np.shape(dataMatrix)
    weights = np.ones(n)
    for j in range(numIter):
        dataIndex = range(m)
        for i in range(m):
            alpha = 4/(1.0+j+i)+0.01
            randIndex = int(random.uniform(0,len(dataIndex)))
            h = sigmoid(sum(dataMatrix[randIndex]*weights))
            error = classLabels[randIndex] - h
            weights = weights + alpha * error * dataMatrix[randIndex]
            del(dataIndex[randIndex])
    return weights

 Modified Code :

def stocGradAscent1(dataMatrix, classLabels,numIter=150):
    dataMatrix=np.array(dataMatrix)
    m,n = np.shape(dataMatrix)
    weights = np.ones(n)
    for j in range(numIter):
        dataIndex = list(range(m))
        for i in range(m):
            alpha = 4/(1.0+j+i)+0.01
            randIndex = int(random.uniform(0,len(dataIndex)))
            h = sigmoid(sum(dataMatrix[randIndex]*weights))
            error = classLabels[randIndex] - h
            weights = weights + alpha * error * dataMatrix[randIndex]
            del(dataIndex[randIndex])
    return weights

Root cause:

Due to Python3.x range return is a object, is not array.

Solution:

Setting dataIndex = range(m) into dataIndex = list(range(m))