On 11/12/10 4:03 PM, George Burdell wrote:
My understanding is that any object which is not pointed to by any variable will be automatically deleted. What if I create a class object, but only keep a reference to one of its members, and not a reference to the object itself? What goes on internally in Python? Does Python retain the whole object, or does it just keep a copy of the referenced member?For example, if I have def myclass: def __init__(self): self.x = [1,2,3] self.y = [4,5,6] x = myclass().x This works, and I correctly get x = [1,2,3]. But what happened to the myclass() object initially created, and the member "y"?
They get deleted. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
