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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 20:30:30 +1100
Subject: Re: Clearing globals in CPython
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On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:05:17 +0000, jakubo wrote:
>
>> After invoking autocompletion (.__ and hitting tab), session has been
>> automagically healed.
>
>
> That's ... um ...
>
> I have no words.
>
>
> Can you confirm that autocompletion modifies globals()? I don't have 3.4
> installed here.

I can confirm that the trick does work. That's... extremely weird.

ChrisA