None assigment

[Steve Holden]

"D-Man" <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote in message
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> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:55:40AM -0800, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> | On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:15:23PM -0500, D-Man wrote:
> | > Interesting.  So normally "None" is a special keyword (that is a
> | > reference to an object) ,  but that doesn't prevent one from creating
> | > a local variable named "None" that shadows the keyword.
> |
> | Sounds like something another P language would do.  Things are
> | simpler.  None is a builtin.  It exists in the __builtin__
> | module.  The buildin module is searched for names after the
> | global namespace is searched.
>
> So why can't I 'del' it then?  It is the response from del that made
> me think it was a special keyword.
>
try

del __builtins__.None

regards
 Steve