On Oct 6, 10:56 am, Ryan <heni...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Good day all! > > I've just inherited a large amount of python code. After spending some > time pour through the code, I've noticed that the original developer > (who is no longer w/ the company) constantly deletes the imported > classes at the end of the .py file. Why would one want to do such a > thing?
Sometimes an object is used only temporarily by a modules, while it's importing. In such cases, there are two reasons you might delete the object. If it uses a lot of memory you could free up the memory for other objects. Also you might want to clean up the module's namespace. I del objects for these reasons sparingly, usually only when the object uses a whole lot of memory, or the namespace is very messy. However, I'm guessing that the person who wrote your code is just overly paranoid. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
