On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:40:08 -0700, Zac Burns wrote: > Is it really worth it to not implement list.clear and answer this > question over and over again? > > I see no reason that a list shouldn't have a .clear method.
The usual answer to that is that there's already two ways of clearing a list: del alist[:] alist[:] = [] and we don't need a third way. Dicts and sets need a clear() method, because there's no equivalent to slicing. I still think that alist.clear() would be a fine addition that matches my intuition and aesthetic sense. Alas, I'm apparently not Dutch. BTW Zac, on this list we don't appreciate top-posting, and we encourage people to trim the quoted replies. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
