del an imported Class at EOF... why?

[Carl Banks]

On Oct 6, 10:56 am, Ryan <heni... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Good day all!
>
> I've just inherited a large amount of python code. After spending some
> time pour through the code, I've noticed that the original developer
> (who is no longer w/ the company) constantly deletes the imported
> classes at the end of the .py file. Why would one want to do such a
> thing?


Sometimes an object is used only temporarily by a modules, while it's
importing.

In such cases, there are two reasons you might delete the object.  If
it uses a lot of memory you could free up the memory for other
objects.  Also you might want to clean up the module's namespace.

I del objects for these reasons sparingly, usually only when the
object uses a whole lot of memory, or the namespace is very messy.

However, I'm guessing that the person who wrote your code is just
overly paranoid.



Carl Banks