David W. Lambert <lamber...@corning.com> added the comment: The del statement makes the variable local, as alluded to by
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-del- statement The manual is clearer about assignments, which are local unless declared global or nonlocal. For other question, me thinks you need to write slightly cleverer code that passes only required data. I have experience with multiprocessing.Pool().map which lets me control the arguments I pass to functions. ---------- nosy: +LambertDW _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5092> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com