[Python-Dev] List copy and clear (was Re: Inconsistent API forsets.Set and build-in set) (original) (raw)

Christos Georgiou tzot at mediconsa.com
Thu Jul 7 16:16:27 CEST 2005

"Tim Peters" <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote in message news:1f7befae05063015207acb85dc at mail.gmail.com...

Or my personal favorite,

while mylist: del mylist[::2] Then the original index positions with the most consecutive trailing 1 bits survive the longest, which is important to avoid ZODB cache bugs .

This is a joke, hopefully, and in that case, I fell for it. If not, please provide a url with related discussion (for educational purposes :)

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