[Python-Dev] Standard Library Tour Part II

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Mon May 24 20:14:25 EDT 2004


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 "<pyshell#108>", 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



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