On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Jon Clements <jon...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 1 Oct, 16:30, "lallous" <lall...@lgwm.org> wrote: > > Hello > > > > What is faster when clearing a list? > > > > del L[:] > > > > or > > > > L = [] > > > > -- > > Elias > > Does it really matter that much? > > And you're really talking about two different things, which quite > often come up on this group. > > Example follows: > > >>> x = range(5) > >>> x = y > Is n't it y=x ? >>> print x, y > [1, 2, 3, 4] [1, 2, 3, 4] > >>> x = [] > >>> print x, y > [] [1, 2, 3, 4] > >>> x = y > >>> print x, y > [1, 2, 3, 4] [1, 2, 3, 4] > >>> del x[:] > >>> print x, y > [] [] > > Cheers, > Jon. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Yours, S.Selvam
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