Use cases for del

[Daniel Dittmar]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Arguing the case for del: how would I, in doing automated testing, 
> ensure that I've returned everything to a "clean" starting point in all 
> cases if I can't delete variables?  Sometimes a global is the simplest 
> way to do something... how do I delete a global if not with "del"?

globals ().__delitem__ (varname)

except that the method would probably be called delete.

Daniel