John Salerno wrote: > Thanks guys, your explanations are really helpful. I think what had me > confused at first was my understanding of what L[:] does on either side > of the assignment operator. On the left, it just chooses those elements > and edits them in place; on the right, it makes a copy of that list, > right? (Which I guess is still more or less *doing* the same thing, just > for different purposes)
Interestingly, if it was just a "clear" method nobody would be confused. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
