Erasing Python Objects

[thegman]

How is it possible to delete an object on Python, other than use 'del', as I understand that this deincrements the reference count to the object, rather than erase the object itself, I need to erase objects completely, how is this done? I know that if I delete all the references then the object will cease to exist, but this seems like a round-about way to do it.

TIA

Garry

 

[sebsauvage]

You can use the None trick:

myvar = None

Note that this will not erase the object from memory.
You do not have control over the garbage collector (well - the reference counter), but I don't knnow if you can force to garbage collector to collect.

Maybe in the garbage collector module ? (gc):

http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-gc.html