[Python-ideas] clear() method for lists

Matthew Russell matt.horizon5 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 16:21:27 CET 2010


this seems to work in python 2.x and python3.1, although I suspect it's a
bug.

>>> t = (1, 2)
>>> t += (3,)
>>> t
(1, 2, 3)


On 11 February 2010 14:57, Oleg Broytman <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 09:51:42AM -0500, Gerald Britton wrote:
> > Say you had a problem where you started with a basic tuple, then
> > needed to add items to it to produce some result.  Now suppose you
> > want to do that repeatedly.  You don't want to disturb the basic
> > tuple
>
>    You can never "disturb" a tuple - it's a read-only object.
>
> Oleg.
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Cheers,
Matt
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