lyst[:None]

[Jacek Generowicz]

"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> writes:

> I'm not even sure whether a list *can* have more than sys.maxint elements -
> I'm sure that will give us something to talk about for days!

Indeed :-) I scratched my head over this when I first thought of it
too. Subscripts must be integers (or longs which are small enough to
be converted to ints), so I'm tempted to conclude that it's safe.