gry@ll.mit.edu wrote:
> To delete all the elements of a list, should one do:
>
>lst[:] = []
> or
>del(lst[:])
del lst[:]
Note that del is not a function - the parentheses are not needed, and in
fact obscure the intent.
Tim Delaney
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Just curious about people's sense of style:
To delete all the elements of a list, should one do:
lst[:] = []
or
del(lst[:])
I seem to see the first form much more often in code, but
the second one seems more clearly *deleting* elements,
and less dangerously mistaken for the completely diff
