Deleting objects in Python 1.6
Michael Hudson
mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Wed May 3 11:10:47 EDT 2000
Alex <cut_me_out at hotmail.com> writes:
> Hi. What does this mean?
>
> > Deleting objects is safe even for deeply nested data structures.
>
> From python.org/1.6.
Try this:
>>> l=[[]]
>>> m=l[0]
>>> for i in range(100000):
... m.append([])
... m = m[0]
...
>>> del l
(hint: it segfaults on my machine, unless I use a v. new Python)
Cheers,
M
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