why del is not a function or method?
Skip Montanaro
skip.montanaro at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 12:28:40 EDT 2017
> What about del team[2]?
>
> There is no name involved here, and even a reference to team[2] won't help.
(I'm not sure quite what question is asking. Apologies if my
assumption was incorrect.)
That is precisely why del is a statement. At byte-compile time, both
"team" and "2" are available. The easiest way to see this is to define
a simple function:
def f(team):
del team[2]
Now, import the dis module and call
dis.dis(f)
then check out the byte code assembler statements.
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