Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Ste_ph_en???
I knew someone once who referred to the two ways
of spelling Ste{v,ph}en as the dry way and
the wet way...
It's not like I spell my name with four M's and a silent Q like the famous
author Farles Wickens *wink*
Or Mr. Luxury-Yacht, which as we all know
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Ste_ph_en???
I know the ph-form of the name is marginally more popular, but dammit my
name is right there just two lines above where Paddy started typing, how
hard is it to get it right?
It's not like I spell my name with four M's and a silent Q like the famous
greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or Mr. Luxury-Yacht, which as we all know is pronounced
Throatwarbler-Mangrove. With a silent hyphen.
You're a very silly person and I'm not going to interview you anymore.
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On Jan 31, 7:34 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:22:52 -0800, Paddy wrote:
As far as I know there is no way to force the deletion of an object
even if it is in use. This is a Good Thing.
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Steven D'Aprano
The folowing will make the data available
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
John Nagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:48:37 -0800, James Stroud wrote:
Stef Mientki wrote:
If I create a large array of data or class,
how do I destroy it (when not needed anymore) ?
If your data structure has no
John Nagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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|If your data structure has no backlinks, it will go away
| as soon as the last reference to it disappears.
|In Python, garbage collection is mostly a backup to
| the reference counting system.
These both are true of
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:26:46 -0800, Paddy wrote:
On Jan 31, 7:34 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[snip]
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Steven D'Aprano
Thanks Stephen for explaining my answer a bit more.
Ste_ph_en???
I know the ph-form of the name is marginally more popular, but dammit my
name is
On Feb 1, 1:45 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:26:46 -0800, Paddy wrote:
On Jan 31, 7:34 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[snip]
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Steven D'Aprano
Thanks Stephen for explaining my answer a bit more.
Ste_ph_en???
I know the ph-form
If I create a large array of data or class,
how do I destroy it (when not needed anymore) ?
Assign it to an empty list ?
thanks,
Stef Mientki
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Stef Mientki wrote:
If I create a large array of data or class,
how do I destroy it (when not needed anymore) ?
Assign it to an empty list ?
thanks,
Stef Mientki
It will be gc'd when you leave the scope or you can call del() to
explicitly get rid of the object if its existence bothers
James Stroud wrote:
Stef Mientki wrote:
If I create a large array of data or class,
how do I destroy it (when not needed anymore) ?
Assign it to an empty list ?
thanks,
Stef Mientki
It will be gc'd when you leave the scope or you can call del() to
explicitly get rid of the object if
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I create a large array of data or class, how do I destroy it (when
not needed anymore) ?
You should be aware that releasing memory may not cause the size of your
process to shrink -- many OSes keep memory assigned to an
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:48:37 -0800, James Stroud wrote:
Stef Mientki wrote:
If I create a large array of data or class,
how do I destroy it (when not needed anymore) ?
Assign it to an empty list ?
thanks,
Stef Mientki
It will be gc'd when you leave the scope or you can call del() to
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:48:37 -0800, James Stroud wrote:
Stef Mientki wrote:
If I create a large array of data or class,
how do I destroy it (when not needed anymore) ?
If your data structure has no backlinks, it will go away
as soon as the last reference to it
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:22:52 -0800, Paddy wrote:
As far as I know there is no way to force the deletion of an object
even if it is in use. This is a Good Thing.
--
Steven D'Aprano
The folowing will make the data available for garbage collection no
matter what references it:
l = [data]
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