On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 09:45:56 -0400, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tom Anderson wrote: >> How about just getting rid of del? Removal from collections could be >> done with a method call, and i'm not convinced that deleting variables >> is something we really need to be able to do (most other languages >> manage without it). > >Arguing the case for del: how would I, in doing automated testing, >ensure that I've returned everything to a "clean" starting point in all >cases if I can't delete variables? Sometimes a global is the simplest >way to do something... how do I delete a global if not with "del"? >
Unless you are actually relying on the global name not being defined, "someGlobal = None" would seem to do just fine. Relying on the global name not being defined seems like an edge case. Jp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
