Hard reset #334
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Hard reset #334
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We're changing enough things in 0.11 that changing defaults to more sensible/useful behavior is within bounds (e.g. we did that already for %history, where now numbers are NOT the default anymore). So feel free to change it to the more sensible default, perhaps just adding a '-soft' option or '-user' for user namespace-only cleanup. |
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OK, done! |
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BTW, is this clearing _NN, _iNN and _oNN variables? |
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Yes. InteractiveShell.reset() completely nukes the user namespace (except |
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As requested in issue #49, this is a "hard reset", which should release any references we have to things, and completely reset the shell.
I've implemented this with a -h option to %reset. I've left %reset just clearing the user namespace by default. If this was being written from scratch, I think I would make %reset do a hard reset by default, but a soft reset is consistent with what it was already doing.