Question about idioms for clearing a list

[Mel Wilson]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> (del doesn't work on dictionaries)

... or rather [:] doesn't work on dictionaries ...

Python 2.4.2 (#1, Jan 23 2006, 21:24:54)
[GCC 3.3.4] on linux2
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 >>> d={'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3}
 >>> print d
{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2}
 >>> del d['b']
 >>> print d
{'a': 1, 'c': 3}
 >>> del d[:]
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: unhashable type
 >>>

	Regards.	Mel.