Ville Vainio wrote:
> I tried to clear a list today (which I do rather rarely, considering
> that just doing l = [] works most of the time) and was shocked, SHOCKED
> to notice that there is no clear() method. Dicts have it, sets have it,
> why do lists have to be second class citizens?
because Python already has a perfectly valid way to clear a list,
perhaps ?
del l[:]
(lists are not mappings, so the duck typing argument don't really
apply here.)
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