Python: how to remove all items from a list

Question

How to delete all elements from a list?

Answer 1

To delete all items from a list, you can use del statement or clear().

Approach 1 (Python 3 only)

a=[11,12,13,14,15,16]
a.clear()
print(a)

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Approach 2 (both Python 2 and 3)

a=[11,12,13,14,15,16]
del a[:]
print(a)

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