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Subject: Re: Persist objects in a  LIST
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On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 07:02:41 -0800 (PST), John Zhao <johnzzhao@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>I found a solution.  replace  bDict.clear() with  bDict = {} 
>
	Which is creating a second, empty, dictionary and binding the name
"bDict" to that new one.

	If all you want is to get rid of the name

		del bDict

should suffice.
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