Ville Vainio wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: >>because Python already has a perfectly valid way to clear a list, >>perhaps ? >> >> del l[:] > > > Ok. That's pretty non-obvious but now that I've seen it I'll probably > remember it. I did a stupid "while l: l.pop()" loop myself.
Actually, it's in the Library Reference (that we keep under our pillows) section 2.3.6.4 Mutable Sequence Types. Cheers, Mel. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list