Derived from here :

import sysx = 10del sys.modules['__main__']print x

If you execute this at the interpreter prompt, you get a NameErrorthat x is not defined. If you execute it as a file (or if you putthe sys.modules and print bit in a function and run the function),you get None printed.

The interpreter situation makes a certain amount of sense, once youdiscover that the interpreter is holding no references to anythingfrom

This week, we:

• got 15,265 messages from 278 different IP addresses.
• handled 21,071 sessions from 1,538 different IP addresses.
• received 215,602 connections from at least 52,130 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 12 connections being checked at once.

These statistics superficially look a lot like last week 's, although up somewhat. What they hide isa significant spam storm that has actually

Here's a fun Fedora Core RPM dependency problem that I just fixed.(Since I've jumped on Ubuntu for similar things, I feel that equaltime is only fair.)

I have been trying to install Wine on my Fedora Core 5 machine fora while, without success. The visible manifestation of the problemwas that ' yum install wine ' would download everything and thenbomb out during the install complaining about two things:

• 'package sane-backends-1.0.18-2.

Recently there has been a small contremps over how well (or not) IDEs can support refactoring for dynamiclanguages. To stereotype and condense, on one side are Java peoplewho feel that without the guarantees provided by static typing, manysorts of automated refactorings are impossible to do reliably and soworthless; on the other side are Tim Bray and dynamic language people,who feel that various things can get them close enough, and besidesthere are a laundry list of situations where static languages don'thave reliable refactorings either