[Python-ideas] clear() method for lists

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/11/2010 12:35 PM, Gerald Britton wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Tim Lesher<tlesher at gmail.com>  wrote:

> Switching gears for a moment, what is the feeling regarding the copy()
> methods for dictionaries and sets?  Are they truly redundant?  Should
> they be deprecated?  Should users be encouraged to use the copy module
> or just  use "newdict = dict(olddict)" and "newset = set(oldset)" to
> build a new dictionary or set from an existing one?

I did not even know that they exist and do not know why they exist.
In my opinion, set(x) should special case s being a set/frozenset, and 
maybe even a dict, and so whatever set.copy does now. Ditto for dict.


Terry Jan Reedy