Proposal: local variable declarations and type advice

[Emile van Sebille]

"Jeff Shannon" <jeff at ccvcorp.com> wrote in message
news:3C7D3B2C.80A97BA2 at ccvcorp.com...
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> Paul Rubin wrote:
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> > Also, there's no way to make sure that the "del temp" at the end of
> > a block actually gets run, unless you put try...finally around it,
> > which is a big mess.
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> I may be in way out of my depth here, but I don't think that this is
true.  If
> you explicitly delete an object, then that name should be guaranteed
to be
> unbound.

Unless, of course, the name shadowed something.  Consider:

>>> list = range(3)
>>> del list
>>> list
<built-in function list>

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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