I know that the standard idioms for clearing a list are: (1) mylist[:] = [] (2) del mylist[:]
I guess I'm not in the "slicing frame of mind", as someone put it, but can someone explain what the difference is between these and: (3) mylist = [] Why are (1) and (2) preferred? I think the first two are changing the list in-place, but why is that better? Isn't the end result the same? Thanks in advance. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
