forcing list garbage collection

[Alex Martelli]

les wrote:

> Hi,
> dictionaries have a clear() method, do lists have something similar?

alist[:] = []

for example.  Or, "del alist[:]".

> i would like to list to empty and memory recollected right away.

Just like adict with adict.clear(), alist does become empty with
this slice assignment or deletion -- but when the memory is
collected is not guaranteed and is an implementation detail
(exactly like for adict.clear(), again).


Alex