On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:36:47 -0700, Alan Morgan wrote: > Serious question: Should it work more like "s=[]" or more like > "s[:]=[]". I'm assuming the latter, but the fact that there is > a difference is an argument for not hiding this operation behind > some syntactic sugar.
Er, I don't see how it can possibly work like s = []. That merely reassigns a new empty list to the name s, it doesn't touch the existing list (which may or may not be garbage collected soon/immediately afterwards). As far as I know, it is impossible -- or at least very hard -- for an object to know which namesspaces it is in, so it can reassign one name but not the others. Even if such a thing was possible, I think it is an absolutely bad idea. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
