Variable viewer: How do you remove variables?

[Tyriar]

Testing #10170

If I run a cell to add some variables and then remove variables in the cell and run it again the old variable remains there. Are these essentially global across all cells? If so should we support deleting them on the kernel via a button?

[rchiodo]

How did you remove them?

[Tyriar]

I didn't, this might be better considered as a feature request if this hold true:

Are these essentially global across all cells?

[rchiodo]

You can 'del x' in a python cell. That is how you destroy a python object. That should make the variable disappear in the variables view.

But yes variables are global. The 'kernel' is a python process that is shared amongst all of the cells in a notebook. The cells you run don't go away until you restart the kernel.