Raymond Hettinger wrote: [...] > If you're asking why list's don't have a clear() method, the answer is > that they already had two ways to do it (slice assignment and slice > deletion) and Guido must have valued API compactness over collection > polymorphism.
That's a decision from long ago. Now that we have sets and the iterable protocol, the case is quite different. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
