Deleting more than one element from a list

[candide]

Is the del instruction able to remove _at the same_ time more than one 
element from a list ?


For instance, this seems to be correct :


 >>> z=[45,12,96,33,66,'ccccc',20,99]
 >>> del z[2], z[6],z[0]
 >>> z
[12, 33, 66, 'ccccc', 20]
 >>>


However, the following doesn't work :

 >> z=[45,12,96,33,66,'ccccc',20,99]
 >>> del z[2], z[3],z[6]
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: list assignment index out of range
 >>>


Does it mean the instruction

del z[2], z[3],z[6]

to be equivalent to the successive calls


del z[2]
del z[3]
del z[6]

?