The delete operator removes a property from an object. It cannot remove a variable. So the answer to the question depends on how the global variable or property is defined. (1) If it is created with var, it cannot be deleted. For example: (2) If it is created without var, it can be deleted. Technical Explanation 1. Using var In … Read more
Why not just do this: Python is dynamic, so you don’t need to declare things; they exist automatically in the first scope where they’re assigned. So, all you need is a regular old assignment statement as above. This is nice, because you’ll never end up with an uninitialized variable. But be careful — this doesn’t … Read more
This is actually a fairly interesting question. It’s not as simple as it looks at first. For reference, I’m going to be basing this off of the latest C11 language grammar defined in N1570 I guess the counter-intuitive part of the question is: if this is correct C: then why is this not also correct C? … Read more
This comes in useful when you have global variables. You declare the existence of global variables in a header, so that each source file that includes the header knows about it, but you only need to “define” it once in one of your source files. To clarify, using extern int x; tells the compiler that … Read more
Okay, first things first. There is no such thing as “variable declaration” or “variable initialization” in Python. There is simply what we call “assignment”, but should probably just call “naming”. Assignment means “this name on the left-hand side now refers to the result of evaluating the right-hand side, regardless of what it referred to before … Read more