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 = []
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Elias
Does it really matter that much?
And you're really talking about two
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
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Geoff
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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
Hello
What is faster when clearing a list?
del L[:]
or
L = []
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Elias
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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
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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