Question about idioms for clearing a list

[Fredrik Lundh]

Bryan Olson wrote:

> So is consistency; it ain't Perl, thank Guido.

consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

> Python now has, what, three built-in mutable collections types:
> lists, dictionaries, and sets. Dicts and sets both have a clear()
> method and lists do not.

dicts and sets are mappings, and lists are not.  mappings don't
support slicing.  lists do.

are you sure you know Python ?

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