On 2007-04-04, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On 2007-04-03, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>> Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>Aahz wrote:
>>>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>>>> Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I create a dictionary like this
>>>>>>> myDict = {}
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and I add entry like this:
>>>>>>> myDict['a'] = 1
>>>>>>> but how can I empty the whole dictionary?
>>>>>> just point myDict to an empty dictionary again
>>>>>>
>>>>>> myDict={}
>>>>>
>>>>> Go back and read Christian's post, then post a followup explaning why his
>>>>> solution is better than yours. Your explanation should use id().
>>>>
>>>>I believe he (as many new to Python do) are mired in old programming
>>>>thinking that variables "contain" things. As I'm sure you kno,
>>>>variables point to things in Python. I don't believe that there are
>>>>lots of other objects pointing to this dictionary. Perhaps the OP
>>>>can clarify for us. If there aren't other objects pointing to this
>>>>dictionary it would make NO sense to iterate over a dictionary and
>>>>delete all the keys/values so I tried to read between the lines and
>>>>answer what I believe the OP thought he was asking.
>>>
>>> Then you should explain why you didn't answer the question that was
>>> asked. Answering a different question without explanation makes your
>>> answer irrelevant at best, wrong at worst.
>>
>>This is not true. If this different question was in fact the intended
>>question instead of the one actually asked. Anwering this different
>>question can be more usefull than answering the one actually asked.
>
> Note carefully that I did not say, "Don't answer the question you think
> should have been asked." What I said was, "If you answer a different
> question, EXPLAIN WHY." Is that so difficult to understand?
You are mixing up two things:
On the one hand you are trying to get some moral behaviour accrosss:
People should explain when answering a different question.
On the second hand you are bringing an opinion: If they don't their
answer is irrelevant at best.
If someone disagrees with the second, repeating the first seems
a bit beside the point.
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