How to clear a list in Python

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to clear or empty a list of elements in Python.

Consider, we have the following list in our code:

users = ['john', 'nancy', 'salsa']

Now, we need to clear all elements from a above list like this [].

Using clear() method

To clear a list, we can use the built-in clear() method in Python.

Here is an example, that removes the all elements from a users list:

users = ['john', 'nancy', 'salsa']
users.clear() #clears all elements

print(users)

Or we can also use the following slice syntax to do it.

users[:] = []