[Python-ideas] clear() method for lists

[Oleg Broytman]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 09:51:42AM -0500, Gerald Britton wrote:
> Say you had a problem where you started with a basic tuple, then
> needed to add items to it to produce some result.  Now suppose you
> want to do that repeatedly.  You don't want to disturb the basic
> tuple

   You can never "disturb" a tuple - it's a read-only object.

Oleg.
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