How do i code an exception in a list in python?

I am trying to create a news aggregator that scrapes headlines from NY Times using BeautifulSoup4.

I want to include the first 15 elements with an h3 tag on the site. However, the 9th element with a h3 tag on NY Times is an advertisement.

How can i inlude that out?

Heres my code:

ht_r = requests.get("https://www.nytimes.com/")
ht_soup = BeautifulSoup(ht_r.content, 'html.parser')
ht_headings = ht_soup.findAll('h3')
ht_headings = ht_headings[0:15]
ht_news = []

I have tried to do

del ht_headings[9]

However, I am getting this error:

SyntaxError: cannot delete function call

>Solution :

you can try:

ht_headings = ht_headings[:9] + ht_headings[10:]