Marco Aschwanden wrote: > Where > > list.del(elem) > map.del(elem) > > would achieve the same result (and I think, this is what happens in the > backend).
so what about del x ? > The same discussion was done for the "external" len-function (list.len() > vs. len(list)). for the curious, guido's rationale for len() can be found here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/y6vavp </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list