当你使用sys.exc_info()检查异常时，有一个特定的例子说明你应该使用del(可能还有其他的例子，但我知道这个是现成的)。这个函数返回一个元组、引发的异常类型、消息和一个回溯。

前两个值通常足以诊断错误并对其进行处理，但第三个值包含从引发异常的位置到捕获异常的位置之间的整个调用堆栈。特别是，如果你做

try:
    do_evil()
except:
    exc_type, exc_value, tb = sys.exc_info()
    if something(exc_value):
        raise

回溯，TB最终在调用堆栈的局部变量中，创建了一个不能被垃圾收集的循环引用。因此，重要的是要做到:

try:
    do_evil()
except:
    exc_type, exc_value, tb = sys.exc_info()
    del tb
    if something(exc_value):
        raise

打破循环引用。在许多情况下，您希望调用sys.exc_info()，就像使用元类魔法一样，回溯是有用的，因此您必须确保在可能离开异常处理程序之前清除它。如果你不需要回溯，你应该立即删除它，或者直接执行:

exc_type, exc_value = sys.exc_info()[:2]

一起避免这一切。

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。

del is the equivalent of "unset" in many languages and as a cross reference point moving from another language to python.. people tend to look for commands that do the same thing that they used to do in their first language... also setting a var to "" or none doesn't really remove the var from scope..it just empties its value the name of the var itself would still be stored in memory...why?!? in a memory intensive script..keeping trash behind its just a no no and anyways...every language out there has some form of an "unset/delete" var function..why not python?

除非重新初始化，否则Del将从当前作用域删除变量。将其设置为None将其保留在当前范围内。

a = "python string"        
print(a)
del a
print(a)
a = "new python string"
print(a)

输出:

python string
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "testing.py", line 4, in <module>
    print(a)
NameError: name 'a' is not defined

还有一个小众用途: 在带有ROOT5或ROOT6的pyroot中，"del"可以用于删除引用不再存在的c++对象的python对象。这允许pyroot的动态查找找到同名的c++对象，并将其绑定到python名称。所以你可以有这样一个场景:

import ROOT as R
input_file = R.TFile('inputs/___my_file_name___.root')
tree = input_file.Get('r')
tree.Draw('hy>>hh(10,0,5)')
R.gPad.Close()
R.hy # shows that hy is still available. It can even be redrawn at this stage.
tree.Draw('hy>>hh(3,0,3)') # overwrites the C++ object in ROOT's namespace
R.hy # shows that R.hy is None, since the C++ object it pointed to is gone
del R.hy
R.hy # now finds the new C++ object

希望ROOT7的更健全的对象管理能够填补这个空缺。

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 :)