for element in match_list
    if not element:
        match_list.remove(element)

[None, None, None, None, None, None, '1563', 'my_string', None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]

['1563', 'my_string']

['1563', 'my_string', None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]