On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:30 AM, lallous <lallous at lgwm.org> wrote: > Hello > > What is faster when clearing a list? > > del L[:] > > or > > L = [] > > -- > Elias > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > The first form actually clears the list, the second for just re-binds the name 'L' to a new, empty list.