Steven D'Aprano enlightened us with: > All joking aside, when I have names (temporary variables or > scaffolding functions) that I need to initialise a module or data > structure, but then outlive their usefulness, I del the name > afterwards. Am I the only one?
I don't do that. I tend to split up my code into pretty small functions, so the temporary names I use have a small scope as is. I don't see the need to add extra 'del' commands when the 'return' five lines further down is going to do the same. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list