[Python-Dev] List copy and clear (was Re: Inconsistent API for sets.Set and build-in set)

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

On Thursday 30 June 2005 17:26, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
 > the current idiom:
 >
 >    mylist[:] = []       # clear

Unless you happen to prefer the other current idiom:

    del mylist[:]


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.   <fdrake at acm.org>