Lists: why is this behavior different for index and slice assignments?
Michael Torrie
torriem at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 22:10:03 EDT 2008
John Salerno wrote:
> So the question is, when you assign an empty list to an index, why does
> it insert an empty list, but when you assign an empty list to a slice,
> it simply deletes the slice?
I would say this is consistent behavior because a list slice is also a
list itself. Whereas a list element is just that. A reference to an
object that can be rebound. In the latter case you are rebinding a
single list item to an empty list.
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