Christian Heimes wrote:
Dave Angel wrote:
Look also at 'del' a command in the language which explicitly deletes an
object.
No, you are either explaining it the wrong way or you have been fallen
for a common misinterpretation of the del statement. The del statement
only removes the object from the current scope. This means it decreases
the reference count by one. It does *not* remove the object.
Christian
You're right of course. What I was trying to say was it deletes the
reference to the object. Unlike obj = None, del obj removes the
reference (attribute) entirely. Although I don't know what it should be
called if it's a local variable. Perhaps it "unbinds" the name.
DaveA
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