Marco Aschwanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ ... ] >> so what about >> >> del x > >Ups. I never used it for an object. So far I only used it for deletion of >elements of a container. In that case del has two purposes: > >1. Deletes an item from a container (and of course destructs it) --> >list.remove(elem) >2. Calls the destructor of an object --> list.destruct() > >One statement and two distinct purposes.
Leaving aside the discussion about whether Python has destructors or not, you are mistaken on two counts: 1. del *is not responsible for an object being destroyed*. That is done by the garbage collector. 2. del is only ever used to "delete an item from a container". It's just that in the plain "del x" case, the container is implicitly the current namespace. (In any case, it's not really "deleting an item from a container", it's removing a reference to the item from the container.) -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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