显式使用"del"也是比将变量赋值为None更好的实践。如果你试图删除一个不存在的变量，你会得到一个运行时错误，但如果你试图将一个不存在的变量设置为None, Python会无声地将一个新变量设置为None，让你想要删除的变量留在原来的位置。所以del会帮助你尽早发现错误

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?

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。)

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 ']

显式使用"del"也是比将变量赋值为None更好的实践。如果你试图删除一个不存在的变量，你会得到一个运行时错误，但如果你试图将一个不存在的变量设置为None, Python会无声地将一个新变量设置为None，让你想要删除的变量留在原来的位置。所以del会帮助你尽早发现错误