Re: [Python-Dev] Standard Library Tour Part II

Hello Raymond, On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:13:44PM -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

>>> del a # remove the one reference >>> gc.collect() # make garbage collection run right away 0 >>> d['primary'] = a # the entry was automatically removed

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in -toplevel- d['primary'] = a # does not create a reference NameError: name 'a' is not defined

Oups, wrong line and hence wrong exception for what you're trying to show. A bientot, Armin