"Amir Michail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The idea is to garbage collect the object as soon as possible, and this > may be sooner than when dosomestuff returns.
If it's a parameter to dosomestuff, then there's still a reference until dosomestuff returns. Simply getting rid of the name only frees a dictionary entry. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list