[Python-Dev] List copy and clear (was Re: Inconsistent API forsets.Set and build-in set)

[Christos Georgiou]

"Tim Peters" <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Or my personal favorite,
>
>    while mylist:
>        del mylist[::2]
>
> Then the original index positions with the most consecutive trailing 1
> bits survive the longest, which is important to avoid ZODB cache bugs
> <wink>.

This is a joke, hopefully, and in that case, I fell for it.  If not, please 
provide a url with related discussion (for educational purposes :)