[Tutor] Killing an instance

[Alan Gauld]

"Ara Kooser" <ghashsnaga at gmail.com> wrote

>   I have two instances called and running. They interact with each
> other and I would like one of the instances to cease to exist in the
> second round based on a given condition. How do you kill an 
> instance?

Either set the variable to something else or explicitly with del()

class C: pass

c = C()  # create a C instance

c = 42   # the C instance gets garbage collected

or

c -= C()  # another instance

del(c)   # delete it.

HTH,


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Alan Gauld
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