Hi Shing! On 16 Jan., 18:18, Shing Hing Man <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > In a Sage session (within notebook or command console) , how to > list all the loaded objects and how to remove them from the session ?
AFAIK, it is the same as in Python, so, if you need references, it would be the Python documentation. The globally defined objects are in the dictionary "globals()". sage: a=3 sage: globals()['a'] 3 In other words, globals() is a dictionary, whose keys are the names of the (globaly) defined objects, and returns these objects. Note that even right after starting sage, globals().keys() is quite a long list. Concerning "remove from the session": See http://docs.python.org/library/gc.html Python keeps track on how many (direct or indirect) references are made to an object. If you define an object and assign it to a variable X, then X is a reference to that object. If you then do Y=X, there is a second reference. If you "delete" X (del X), then it just means that the number of references to the object decreases by one; hence, there is still the reference from Y to the object, and fortunately that prevents the object from being destroyed. If there is no reference to the object left (or, more generally, if it is impossible to come from the session to the object by a chain of references), then it is allowed to *really* destroy the object. But that't the job of Python's garbage collector! In other words, I think there is no need to actively remove anything. Best regards, Simon
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