PySide - Delete selected items

[JoNo_21]

I'm currently deleting the selected items in a QLIstWidget like so:

for item in self.selectedItems():
    self.takeItem(self.row(item))

My list consists of 20,000 entries and this is proving to be way too slow. Is there a faster way? In C++ land I saw an example online where qDeleteAll(selectedItems()) was used. Is there an equivalent in PySide, or some other faster approach?

Thanks.