Is there a "reset" in Idle?

[Gerrit Muller]

JXSternChangeX2R wrote:
> 
> Another newbie question.
> 
> After I've run a python program a few times and fixed a few bugs, it
> seems that the name spaces are polluted with old values.  Is there any
> kind of a "reset" that clears everything without exiting and
> restarting the process?
> 
> Python 2.2 on XP Pro.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Joshua Stern

This issue has been discussed here before. Especially new or naieve
users do not over see the consequence of the ever increasing historic
context. I just finished an e-mail conversation with a potential new
user, who ran into the problem that import only works once and of course
he didn't know the reload magic yet. This is also a problem which would
be solved by a "reset".

regards Gerrit
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