del operator in Python
There is another operator in Python that does the similar work as the delattr() method. It is the del operator. del operator makes some variable ready for garbage collection, if there is no reference of the variable in the later part of the program control flow.
Python3
class Geek: domain = "w3wiki.org"if __name__ == '__main__': geeks = Geek() print("Before deleting domain attribute from geeks object:") print(geeks.domain) # using del operator del geeks.domain print("After deleting domain attribute from geeks object:") # this will raise AttributeError if we try to access 'domain' attribute print(geeks.domain) |
Output:
Before deleting domain attribute from geeks object:
w3wiki.org
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "792e8f29-bcdc-4756-abc2-72b03b77540d.py", line 10, in <module>
del geeks.domain
AttributeError: domain
delattr() and del() in Python
In this article, we are going to see delattr() and del() functions in Python