How to clean python interpreter's environment?

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
> 
>>>Rafal Kleger-Rudomin wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm looking for a command to reset interpreter's environment i.e. unload 
>>>>all modules, delete variables etc.
>> 
>> What about something like this:
>> 
>> def clear(keep=("__builtins__", "clear")):
>>     keeps = {}
>>     for name, value in globals().iteritems():
>>         if name in keep: keeps[name] = value
>>     globals().clear()
>>     for name, value in keeps.iteritems():
>>         globals()[name] = value
> 
> Well, that only removes all the references from the
> globals of the current module.  Is that all that's
> wanted?
> 
> Note that threads that are already running will not be
> removed, nothing in sys.modules will be removed, and
> there are doubtless a few other things in the interpreter
> that aren't quite so easy to get at.

Right. So I agree with you on ^D.

Reinhold

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