Quoting Esmail <ebo...@hotmail.com>: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > > > some_list[:] = [] > > I agree that this is nice and clear,
Not very intuitive, though, until you learn the syntax. (but, slice accessing and slice assignment are among the first few things one learns about python anyway, and once you learn it, it seems more than natural) > but as a relative newbie > wouldn't > > some_list = [] > > be also acceptable (and pythonic?)? Pythonic, yes. Acceptable, it may not be (depending on the problem). And I would adventure that if someone needs to clear a list instead of creating an empty one, its likely that someone is facing one of those problems (i.e: clearing a list that you got as a function argument, or playing with os.walk). -- Luis Zarrabeitia Facultad de Matemática y Computación, UH http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie -- Participe en Universidad 2010, del 8 al 12 de febrero de 2010 La Habana, Cuba http://www.universidad2010.cu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
