On 07/07/15 01:18, Danny Yoo wrote:
I'd also add that the 'del' statement has near-zero utility.
'del' is a language blemish. It should not be used by beginners,
because it asks them to try to manually manage the lifetime of their
variable names. That's an unreasonable and ridiculous burden.
Functions have local variables for a reason.
I don't know that I'd go that far. There are valid uses for
it in deleting things from dictionaries and the like.
But I agree its not needed very often and can lead to
users over-managing their data.
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