list.clear() missing?!?

[Sergei Organov]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
[...]
> Then it's a good reason we had this thread, so you could learn something 
> *crucial* to understanding Python and writing non-buggy code: name 
> binding versus variables which occupy fixed memory locations like in 
> some other languages.  This has to be by far the most frequent area that 
> newcomer's trip up.  But that's another story...

I, as a newcomer, don't have much trouble understanding the binding vs
the assignment by themselves. What does somewhat confuse is dual role of
the "=" operator, -- sometimes it means "bind" and other times it means
"assign", right? For me it seems that the language would be less
error-prone and easier to grok if these two operations had different
names/syntax (thinking about lisp "let" vs "set"), though it seems to be
too drastic change even for Python3000.

-- Sergei.