Why is there no list.clear() method in python?

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Why is there no list.clear() method in python? I\'ve found several questions here that say the correct way to do it is one of the followin

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While there was no list.clear() when this question was asked, 3.3 now has one (as requested in http://bugs.python.org/issue10516). Additionally, clear() methods have been added to bytearray and MutableSequence to ease switching between lists and other collections (set, dict etc).

Full details of the change can be found here.