list.clear() missing?!?

[Ville Vainio]

Steven Bethard wrote:

> If you feel really strongly about this though, you might consider
> writing up a PEP.  It's been contentious enough that there's not much
> chance of getting a change without one.

No strong feelings here, and I'm sure greater minds than me have
already hashed this over sufficiently.

It's just that, when I have an object, and am wondering how I can clear
it, I tend to look what methods it has first and go to google looking
for "idioms" second.

Perhaps "clear" method could be added that raises
PedagogicException("Use del lst[:], stupid!")? 

*ducks*