In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2007-04-03, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Aahz wrote:
>>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>>> Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I create a dictionary like this
>>>>>> myDict = {}
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and I add entry like this:
>>>>>> myDict['a'] = 1
>>>>>> but how can I empty the whole dictionary?
>>>>> just point myDict to an empty dictionary again
>>>>>
>>>>> myDict={}
>>>>
>>>> Go back and read Christian's post, then post a followup explaning why his
>>>> solution is better than yours. Your explanation should use id().
>>>
>>>I believe he (as many new to Python do) are mired in old programming
>>>thinking that variables "contain" things. As I'm sure you kno,
>>>variables point to things in Python. I don't believe that there are
>>>lots of other objects pointing to this dictionary. Perhaps the OP
>>>can clarify for us. If there aren't other objects pointing to this
>>>dictionary it would make NO sense to iterate over a dictionary and
>>>delete all the keys/values so I tried to read between the lines and
>>>answer what I believe the OP thought he was asking.
>>
>> Then you should explain why you didn't answer the question that was
>> asked. Answering a different question without explanation makes your
>> answer irrelevant at best, wrong at worst.
>
>This is not true. If this different question was in fact the intended
>question instead of the one actually asked. Anwering this different
>question can be more usefull than answering the one actually asked.
Note carefully that I did not say, "Don't answer the question you think
should have been asked." What I said was, "If you answer a different
question, EXPLAIN WHY." Is that so difficult to understand?
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