On May 12, 7:03 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > IMHO, whether a varibale is used or not has got to be one of the least > > important things of all (in no small part because it's easily > > discernable from nearby code). > > I couldn't disagree more. > > If you're binding a name to a value that will never be used, you're > doing me (the reader of the code) a great favour if you indicate > clearly and concisely that this value is not intended to be referenced > anywhere else. Saving time for the reader is a very important job of > the writer of code.
If you push this logic too far, you should del every name immediately after the last statement it is used in the scope. I would generally find less readable some code spread with del every few lines, micro- managing the effective scope of each name. YMMV. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
