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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 00:12:49 +1000
Subject: Re: Clearing globals in CPython
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2014-10-01, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>> Obviously the easiest way to recover is to exit the current session and
>> restart it, but as a challenge, can we recover from this state?
>
> Python apparently _does_ need a "restart command".

Apparently not... you saw how easily Peter recovered :)

ChrisA