Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!87.79.20.101.MISMATCH!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!194.109.133.86.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'builtin': 0.09; 'exit': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'restart': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'from:addr:behnel.de': 0.16; 'from:addr:stefan_ml': 0.16; 'from:name:stefan behnel': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:Clearing': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'code.': 0.18; 'obviously': 0.18; 'stefan': 0.19; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'right.': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'function': 0.29; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'apparently': 0.31; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'fri,': 0.33; 'received:84': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'easily': 0.37; 'easiest': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'saw': 0.77; 'not...': 0.84; 'edwards': 0.91; 'recover': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Stefan Behnel Subject: Re: Clearing globals in CPython Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 07:26:20 +0200 References: <542c2527$0$13013$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-056-047-073.084.056.pools.vodafone-ip.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1412314003 news.xs4all.nl 2928 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:51593 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:78635 Chris Angelico schrieb am 02.10.2014 um 16:12: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2014-10-01, Steven D'Aprano 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 :) Right. All we need is a builtin function for that recovery code. Stefan