On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 13:12 -0400, Mel wrote: > >>> I think it would also be better to have One (and prefereably Only One) > >>> Obvious Way To Do It. That obvious way, for those who work with > >>> Python's ‘set’ and ‘dict’, is a ‘clear’ method. It seems best to have > >>> ‘list’ conform with this also. > >> > >> Does that mean a one-off special case rule to forbid slices having a > >> default? > > > > Why would it do that? > > Well, if list.clear were truly and strictly to be the only way to clear the > contents of a list, then assigning nothing via the default slice would have > to be ruled out. `somelist[:] = []` is just a special case of assignment to > a slice generally.
agreed. If .clear was to be added then really assignments to slices should be entirely removed. Tim W -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
