On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote: > a = someexpression... > b = a > .... > del a > > Does not (necessarily) delete the object that a refers to. It merely > deletes the symbol a.
I'd have to classify that as part of the change of thinking necessary for a refcounted language, and not specific to del at all. The del statement is identical to "a = None" in terms of deleting objects; someone who's come from C++ might want to explicitly del every variable before returning, but that's the only way that it's tied to 'del'. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
