Steven Watanabe wrote: > 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?
I'm wondering why there is no 'clear' for lists. It feels like a common operation for mutable containers. :-/ Will McGugan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
