What is not objects in Python?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:14:36 -0400, Mel wrote:

> George Sakkis wrote:
>> As Terry Reedy wrote, partly history and partly practicality. There's
>> no philosophical reason why we write "len(x)" (generic builtin),
>> "x.append(1)" (method) or "del x[i]" (statement). The latter in
>> particular is IMHO a design wart; there's no reason for not writing it
>> as "x.delete(i)".
> 
> `del x` has almost nothing to do with `x`, and almost everything to do
> with a namespace containing `x`.  The object doesn't know what namespace
> it's in.

But George's example was ``del x[i]`` which *has* something to do with 
`x` as it mutates the object (or at least calls `x.__delitem__()`).

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch