Minor code clean-up.

diff --git a/Lib/collections.py b/Lib/collections.py
index 0a3f18cb4eab37995e6e77f5d85afc959a6f51f6..d41e00becc4e3a97f0294cef17a67de1b08bb1f9 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/collections.py
+++ b/Lib/collections.py
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ class OrderedDict(dict):
         try:
             for node in self.__map.itervalues():
                 del node[:]
-            self.__root[:] = [self.__root, self.__root, None]
+            root = self.__root
+            root[:] = [root, root, None]
             self.__map.clear()
         except AttributeError:
             pass