On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 19:05, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > The action of deleting a *name* is not the same as disposing of an > *object*. You can consider "del x" to be very similar to "x = None", > except that instead of rebinding to some other object, it unbinds x > altogether.
Exactly. But if `x = None` will return the previous value of x, the refcount of the object will be not decreased, and Python does not free the object memory. An example: (venv) marco@buzz:~/sources$ python Python 3.8.2 (tags/v3.8.2-dirty:7b3ab5921f, Mar 1 2020, 16:16:55) [GCC 9.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from sys import getrefcount >>> a = "nfnjgjsbsjbjbsjlbslj" >>> getrefcount(a) 2 >>> a 'nfnjgjsbsjbjbsjlbslj' >>> getrefcount(a) 3 _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/3GI25DLEUA2LRLXFH5BJ5UGDWVEBMXSA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
