[Tutor] inconsistent destruction

[Japhy Bartlett]

you can either manually manage the memory with `del cnt` or let the built
in memory management .. manage the memory.


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Jim Mooney <cybervigilante at gmail.com>wrote:

> This bugs me for some reason. The final variable is saved in a for
> loop but not in a list comprehension. It just seems to me they should
> both be destroyed to avoid confusion.
>
> lst = []
> for cnt in range(5):
>     lst.append(cnt)
> cnt
> 4
>
> lst = [cnt2 for cnt2 in range(5)]
> cnt2
> builtins.NameError: name 'cnt2' is not defined
>
> Is there a form of for loop that would destroy the loop variable? I
> could always do del cnt right after the for, but that seems
> artificial.
>
> --
> Jim
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