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1 point by Pauan 4929 days ago | link | parent

It absolutely does! It also allows for deleting indices/slices:

  foo = [1, 2, 3, 4]
  foo[0:2] = [0]
  foo -> [0, 3, 4]

  del foo[0:1]
  foo -> [3, 4]
In fact, there's an idiomatic way to delete every element in a list:

  del foo[:]
  foo -> []


2 points by akkartik 4929 days ago | link

Ah.

And del is identical to assigning to [].

  >>> foo = [0, 1, 2]
  >>> foo[0:1] = []
  >>> foo
  [1, 2]
I stand corrected.

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