None assigment

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.981652444.20002.python-list at python.org>,
Gregoire Welraeds  <greg at perceval.be> wrote:
>
>Always according to this logic, I have tried to run the following:
>
>>>> a= [1,'',3]
>>>> b= 0 # b could be anything
>>>> del b
>>>> filter(b,a)
>
>but this won't work either as stated in the documentation. Referencing a
>"deleted" variable is an error at least until another value is assigned to
>it (see del statement section in the tutorial).
>
>It seems that (the so called variable) None is neither a variable like any
>other, nor is it a label as stated by Simon Brunning in another post.

What you're missing is the issue of Python scopes.  Try this:

b=2
def foo():
    b=4
    print b
    del b
    global b
    print b
foo()

None has a bit of magic associated with it, but not much.
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