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[Daniel Silva]

Jp Calderone <exarkun at intarweb.us> wrote:

>     >>> class Foo:
>     ...    def __init__(self): self.bar = 10
>     ...
>     >>> f = Foo()
>     >>> del f.bar
>     >>> f.bar  # AttributeError

Why would you do that?  You just broke your class's contract.

>     The vast majority of other cases (at least in my code) is for cleaning
> up temporary variables, simply for the sake of namespace cleanliness.

So, usually at the end of modules to make sure only certain things are 
provided?  The garbage is usually hidden in some scoping anyway...

- Daniel