On 4/25/07, guido.van.rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> + implementation.) **Open issues:** Forcing every mutable set
> + to implement this may be a pain for such a fairly
> + non-essential method. Perhaps just drop it?
There are also comments worrying that an abstract implementation would
be horribly slow -- but so what?
Alex Martelli posted some stats (for dicts, I think) showing that
(even today) clear was slower than just creating a new object. It
still makes sense if you care about the "is" relation
Since you are keeping "pop", the abstract implementation can at least
approximate iteration.
def clear(self):
while self.pop(): pass
-jJ
_______________________________________________
Python-3000 mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
