[Python-ideas] Re: Make `del x` an expression evaluating to `x`

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 16:57, Eric Wieser <wieser.eric+numpy@gmail.com> wrote:

It looks like actually this can be be built as a function today:

def move(name): return inspect.currentframe().f_back.f_locals.pop(name)

Which works as follows, but it feels awkward to pass variable names by strings (and will confuse linters):

>>> for v in itertools.combinations([1, 2, 3], 1): ... print(id(move("v"))) 1718903397008 1718903397008 1718903397008

I'm both impressed and horrified by this :-) Paul