The del statement

[Fredrik Lundh]

Marco Aschwanden wrote:

> 2. Calls the destructor of an object --> list.destruct()

"del name" only removes the name from the current namespace, it doesn't 
destroy the object:

     http://effbot.org/pyref/del

the actual destruction is handled by the garbage collector, when the 
time is right.

 > The del keyword for removing an element in a container is a bit
 > awkward to me.

do you find the x[i] syntax for calling the getitem/setitem methods a 
bit awkward too?  what about HTTP's use of "GET" and "POST" for most 
about everything ? ;-)

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