Re: emptying a list

2009-10-02 Thread S.Selvam
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Jon Clements jon...@googlemail.com wrote: On 1 Oct, 16:30, lallous lall...@lgwm.org wrote: Hello What is faster when clearing a list? del L[:] or L = [] -- Elias Does it really matter that much? And you're really talking about two

Re: emptying a list

2009-10-01 Thread Geoffrey Clements
lallous lall...@lgwm.org wrote in message news:ha2htc$u9...@aioe.org... Hello What is faster when clearing a list? del L[:] or L = [] Oh, L = [] definitely, on the basis that there are fewer characters to type. http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/profile.html -- Geoff --

Re: emptying a list

2009-10-01 Thread Jon Clements
On 1 Oct, 16:30, lallous lall...@lgwm.org wrote: Hello What is faster when clearing a list? del L[:] or L = [] -- Elias Does it really matter that much? And you're really talking about two different things, which quite often come up on this group. Example follows: x = range(5) x

emptying a list

2009-10-01 Thread lallous
Hello What is faster when clearing a list? del L[:] or L = [] -- Elias -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: emptying a list

2009-10-01 Thread Simon Forman
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:30 AM, lallous lall...@lgwm.org wrote: Hello What is faster when clearing a list? del L[:] or L = [] -- Elias -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list The first form actually clears the list, the second for just re-binds the name 'L' to a