Deleting objects - my earler post got garbled

[Robert Brewer]

Asun Friere wrote:
> "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message 
> news:<40883067.4000702 at v.loewis.de>...
> 
> > There is no way to explicitly delete an object in Python.
> 
> So what does "del <object>" actually do then?

There is no "del <object>", only "del <name>". Therefore:

"Deletion of a name removes the binding of that name from the local or global namespace, depending on whether the name occurs in a global statement in the same code block."

as written at: http://docs.python.org/ref/del.html


Robert Brewer
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