"lallous" <lallous at lgwm.org> wrote in message news:ha2htc$u9u$1 at aioe.org... > Hello > > What is faster when clearing a list? > > del L[:] > > or > > L = [] > Oh, "L = []" definitely, on the basis that there are fewer characters to type. http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/profile.html -- Geoff