[Tom Anderson]
> > del -> delete
> How about just getting rid of del? [...] i'm not convinced that
> deleting variables is something we really need to be able to do
While surely not in every program, I still use `del' often. Compare:
x = None
del x
when the goal is to cut the reference being held in x. Both statements
do it, yet the intent is expressed more legibly by the second.
> (most other languages manage without it).
Hardly an excuse against some good ideas Python has on its own! :-)
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