Re: why del is not a function or method?

[Robin Becker]

On 16/10/2017 16:37, Xue Feng via Python-list wrote:

Hi,

   I wonder why 'del' is not a function or method. Most operations can be used as follows

         len(team)
or
         team.append("tom")
But, I think
         del team[2]
is somewhat uncommon. Why does not it take a syntax we are famillar with?

It can look like a function

x = 3
del(x)
x

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'x' is not defined

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