<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:42 AM Steven D'Aprano <<a href="mailto:steve@pearwood.info">steve@pearwood.info</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">[snip]</span><br><br>
I still remember being told in no uncertain terms by the core devs that <br>
adding a clear() method to lists was a waste of time because there was <br>
already a perfectly good way to spell it with slicing. And then ABCs <br>
came along and now lists have a clear method. So opinions change too.<br><br></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I agree with the opinions expressed in the (partially) quoted message </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">but I don't think that this is how this particular change happened.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-April/003897.html" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-April/003897.html</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">;-) ;-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">André Roberge</div></div></div>