Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:41:10 -0400, Mel wrote:
>
>> Ben Finney wrote:
>>
>>> I think it would also be better to have One (and prefereably Only One)
>>> Obvious Way To Do It. That obvious way, for those who work with
>>> Python's ‘set’ and ‘dict’, is a ‘clear’ method. It seems best to have
>>> ‘list’ conform with this also.
>>
>> Does that mean a one-off special case rule to forbid slices having a
>> default?
>
> Why would it do that?
Well, if list.clear were truly and strictly to be the only way to clear the
contents of a list, then assigning nothing via the default slice would have
to be ruled out. `somelist[:] = []` is just a special case of assignment to
a slice generally.
Mel.
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