Chris Rebert <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> there is following python script: >> >> mine = { 1: "sd", 2: "mk" } >> del(mine[1]) >> print mine >> >> the problem is I cannot find any information about del() function in >> python 2.7 documentation. >> is it a documentation bug or I misunderstand something about del()? > >del is a *statement*, *not* a function: >http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-del-statement
This kind of confusion is, in my opinion, the primary reason why parentheses should never be used with "del" and "return", as we so commonly see. -- Tim Roberts, [email protected] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
