Better solution

[Michael Hudson]

"Bo M. Maryniuck" <b.maryniuk at forbis.lt> writes:

> On Wednesday 21 August 2002 10:24, Michael Hudson wrote:
> > > Also what is [:]?
> > A slice.
> "a zlize". :-) Thank you, but I know this! What the advantage and different 
> between:
> 
[snip]

Consider:

>>> a = range(10)
>>> b = a     
>>> b = [x for x in b if x % 2 == 0]
>>> a, b
([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [0, 2, 4, 6, 8])

versus:

>>> a = range(10)
>>> b = a
>>> b[:] = [x for x in b if x % 2 == 0]
>>> a, b
([0, 2, 4, 6, 8], [0, 2, 4, 6, 8])

Cheers,
M.

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