On 27/02/2019 22:39, Roel Schroeven wrote: > Aren't we overthinking this?
No, it's just that nobody had found the evidence you did. > > I think it's pretty clear that a variable is never deleted before it > goes out of scope. A quick search in the documentation points me to > (https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#objects-values-and-types): > > > "Objects are never explicitly destroyed; however, when they become > unreachable they may be garbage-collected. An implementation is allowed > to postpone garbage collection or omit it altogether — it is a matter of > implementation quality how garbage collection is implemented, *as long > as no objects are collected that are still reachable*." (emphasis mine) > > In the original example (without del), f is reachable everywhere in the > function after the initial binding, so it can not be deleted. Thanks! -- Thomas -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
