ISTM, the language moratorium would preclude this change. Also, since it doesn't actually add any new functionality, it is more of a documentation issue, teaching basic python idioms: del s[:] or s[:] = [] Raymond On Feb 5, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Gerald Britton wrote:
In the list archives, this thread
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-April/003897.html
discusses adding a clear() method to list objects, to complement those available for sets and dictionaries. Later in the thread:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-April/003933.html
Christian Heimes provided a patch to do it and R. H. commented that all it would take is Guido's blessing.
So, I'm wondering, can we do this? What are the steps needed to ask this work to be blessed?
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