On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 08:24 -0700, WilsonOfCanada wrote:
> I was wondering if there is any built-in function that clears the
> array.
The proper python term would be "list." You can remove all elements of
a list 'l' like so:
del l[:]
> I was also wondering if this works:
>
> arrMoo = ['33', '342', .... '342']
> arrMoo = []
That doesn't clear the list as such, but rather creates a new list, and
reassigns the new list to the 'arrMoo' name in the local scope.
Consider:
>>> l1 = [1,2,3]
>>> l2 = l1
>>> l1 = []
>>> print l2
[1, 2, 3]
So the original list 'l1' lives on. However:
>>> l1 = [1,2,3]
>>> l2 = l1
>>> del l1[:]
>>> print l1, l2
[] []
Cheers,
Jason.
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