On Apr 16, 9:26 am, Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If we do:
> lines[:] = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in lines]
>
> We reuse an existing list, therefore we are saving the time it takes to
> create a new list ? So this is a performance issue ?I think it's more of a reference issue. You may have other labels already pointing to 'lines', if you want them to refer to the same, rstrip'd list, you'd do an in-place update like this. - alex23 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
