首先，你可以删除除局部变量之外的其他东西

del list_item[4]
del dictionary["alpha"]

这两者显然都是有用的。其次，在局部变量上使用del使意图更加明确。比较:

del foo

to

foo = None

我知道在del foo的情况下，目的是从作用域中删除变量。foo = None是否这样做还不清楚。如果有人只是赋值foo = None，我可能会认为这是死代码。但我立刻就知道，编码del foo的人想要做什么。

del所做的部分(来自Python语言参考):

删除名称将从本地或全局名称空间删除该名称的绑定

将None赋值给名称不会删除名称与名称空间的绑定。

(我想关于移除名称绑定是否真的有用可能会有一些争论，但这是另一个问题。)

在以上回答的基础上补充几点: 德尔x

x的定义表示r -> o(一个引用r指向一个对象o)，但del x改变的是r而不是o。这是一个对对象的引用(指针)的操作，而不是与x相关的对象。区分r和o是这里的关键。

It removes it from locals(). Removes it from globals() if x belongs there. Removes it from the stack frame (removes the reference physically from it, but the object itself resides in object pool and not in the stack frame). Removes it from the current scope. It is very useful to limit the span of definition of a local variable, which otherwise can cause problems. It is more about declaration of the name rather than definition of content. It affects where x belongs to, not where x points to. The only physical change in memory is this. For example if x is in a dictionary or list, it (as a reference) is removed from there(and not necessarily from the object pool). In this example, the dictionary it belongs is the stack frame (locals()), which overlaps with globals().

I think one of the reasons that del has its own syntax is that replacing it with a function might be hard in certain cases given it operates on the binding or variable and not the value it references. Thus if a function version of del were to be created a context would need to be passed in. del foo would need to become globals().remove('foo') or locals().remove('foo') which gets messy and less readable. Still I say getting rid of del would be good given its seemingly rare use. But removing language features/flaws can be painful. Maybe python 4 will remove it :)

Del删除变量及其所指向的对象的绑定。

>>> a = ['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> b = a
>>> del a
>>> b
['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> a
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'a' is not defined

我能想到的一个简单的用例是，如果你已经使用内置函数名作为变量，并且你想在它已经被你的变量名“覆盖”之后使用该函数。

t = ('a', "letter")
value, type = t
print(value, type)
del type
print(type(value))

输出:

a letter
<class 'str'>

只是另一种想法。

当在Django这样的框架中调试http应用程序时，调用堆栈中充满了以前使用过的无用和混乱的变量，特别是当它是一个非常长的列表时，这对开发人员来说是非常痛苦的。因此，在这一点上，名称空间控制可能是有用的。