On Sep 22, 5:52 pm, Matimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 22, 2:31 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > hi all, > > > forgive me , but the RTFM and Google search approaches are not > > yielding an answer on this question. I need to know if there's a top > > level python interpreter command that clears all user variables (not > > built-ins) from the global namespace. In other words a statement, or > > some_command_or_function(), that does this: > > > >>> x=3 > > >>> y=4 > > >>> z=[] > > >>> dir() > > > ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'x', 'y', 'z'] > > > >>> some_command_or_function() > > >>> dir() > > > ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__'] > > > thanks, > > 1 desperate snake oil programmer .... > > I don't think you will find anything. The interpreter is essentially > the same whether you are in interactive mode or not. That is, there is > very little use for a method that clears globals in general, so why > would we add it just so that it could be used by the interpreter. > There is almost* nothing available to the interactive interpreter > which isn't part of the core language. > > * The only difference I can think of is the "_" variable, which is > added to __builtins__ and contains the last value returned in > interactive mode. If you have ever tried to run code that uses the > locale module from the interpreter you will see why having any > differences between the interactive and non-interactive interpreter > can be a pain. > > Matt
ok. thanks! guess i'll be off to define my own function ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list