PythonWin: any way to delete all objects without exiting and without doing it with "del"?

[dananrg]

In PythonWin, is there any way to bulk-delete all objects without using
"del object" for each, and without having to exit out of PythonWin?

 

[Lawrence Oluyede]

In PythonWin, is there any way to bulk-delete all objects without using
"del object" for each, and without having to exit out of PythonWin?

PythonWin is just an IDE. For what reason you have to delete all objects by
yourself? Garbage collector is there for that

 

[Steven Bethard]

In PythonWin, is there any way to bulk-delete all objects without using
"del object" for each, and without having to exit out of PythonWin?

I think you just want to modify the globals() dict:
['__builtins__', 'text', 'glob', 'pywin', 're', 'match', 'basename',
'__name__', 'line', 'foo', 'os', '__doc__', 'fn'].... if name != 'pywin' and name[:2] != '__':
.... del globals()[name]
....['__builtins__', 'pywin', '__name__', '__doc__']

Be careful though, I think there's a few things in there you might not
want to ``del`` (e.g. ``pywin``).

STeVe

 

[dananrg]

PythonWin is just an IDE. For what reason you have to delete all objects by

yourself? Garbage collector is there for that

I think the garbage collector is on strike.

Example:

# 1st execution
a = [1,2,3]
print a

[1,2.3]

program ends.

Then I comment out a = [1,2,3] and run the program:

# 2nd execution
# a = [1,2,3]
print a

[1,2,3]

Same result. Why? I know that's not a great example, but it was giving
me grief in the debugging process while using the ODBC module. I'd
really rather not have to exit out of PythonWin each time I want to
clear out all the objects I created during a script, and then
subsequently comment out for future executions of a script for
debugging, if that makes any sense.

 

[dananrg]

Steven, does your technique fix my problem? Would that delete the
objects I've created within a program if I suffix my code with it?

 

[Steven Bethard]

Steven, does your technique fix my problem? Would that delete the
objects I've created within a program if I suffix my code with it?

I'm not certain I understand your problem, but I think so. Give it a try.

STeVe