How to delete every reference of an object in Python?

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Published on 2010-06-10T09:48:27Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 11:43 UTC
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Supose you have something like:

x = "something"
b = x
l = [b]

How can you delete the object only having one reference, say x?

del x won't do the trick; the object is still reachable from b, for example.

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