list.clear() missing?!?

[Ville Vainio]

John Salerno wrote:

> Thanks guys, your explanations are really helpful. I think what had me
> confused at first was my understanding of what L[:] does on either side
> of the assignment operator. On the left, it just chooses those elements
> and edits them in place; on the right, it makes a copy of that list,
> right? (Which I guess is still more or less *doing* the same thing, just
> for different purposes)

Interestingly, if it was just a "clear" method nobody would be confused.