del and sets proposal

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Thu Oct 2 19:55:42 EDT 2008


On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:48:42 -0700, Jon Clements wrote:

> It's also worth noting that removing an object from a container
> (.remove) is different than proposing the object goes to GC (del...)

``del`` doesn't propose that the object goes to GC, at least not more 
then a `remove()` method does.  Just like `remove()` ``del`` only removes 
references to objects.  Always.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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