Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > George Sakkis wrote: >> One of the few Python constructs that feels less elegant than >> necessary to me is the del statement. For one thing, it is overloaded >> to mean three different things: >> (1) del x: Remove x from the current namespace >> (2) del x[i]: Equivalent to x.__delitem__(i) >> (3) del x.a: Equivalent to x.__delattr__('a') (or delattr(x,'a')) > > Note that the 'X = Y' construct has the corresponding three meanings: > > (1) x = 4 # Bind x to 4 in the 'current namespace' > (2) x[i] = 4 # equivalent to x.__setitem__(i, 4) > (3) x.a = 4 # Equivalent to x.__setattr__('a', 4)
I think you both missed a case: (1b) global x; del x # Remove x from global namespace (1b) global x; x = 4 # Bind x to 4 in the global namespace > What conclusion should we draw from that? That Python is simple and consistent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list