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。)

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。

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

"del"命令对于控制数组中的数据非常有用，例如:

elements = ["A", "B", "C", "D"]
# Remove first element.
del elements[:1]
print(elements)

输出:

[' b '， ' c '， ' d ']