why del is not a function or method?

[bartc]

On 17/10/2017 16:44, Terry Reedy wrote:

> In CPython left-hand expressions are not merely quoted for runtime 
> evaluation and use.  They are parsed at compile time and compiled to 
> almost normal bytecode.  The difference is that a load bytecode is 
> replace by a store bytecode (that takes a second argument).

What does the second argument do?

I thought Load and Store were of equal rank.

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bartc