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128 Pointsi am lost! "Bummer!" ? delete the `planned` variable with the `del` keyword, yes
i am lost! "Bummer!" ? delete the planned
variable with the del
keyword, yes
current_count = 14
planned = 5
upcoming_releases = del
don't delete the line
del favorate number
del (favorate_number)
del favorate_number
no
del favorate_fruit
del (favorate_fruit)
del favorate_fruit
1 Answer
Jeffrey James
2,636 PointsYou can call "del variable" on any variable. Look at it with a clear head. Here's an example. Sometimes, rather than deleting something, you may also set it equal to None. However, None still has a space in memory and contains properties. The dir(some_variable) method exposes properties and methods of a variable, if you're not 100% clear on what it does.
In [6]: planned = 'the event we have'
In [7]: print(planned)
the event we have
In [8]: del planned
In [9]: print(planned)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-9-ff12f57317d2> in <module>()
----> 1 print(planned)
NameError: name 'planned' is not defined
In [10]: planned = 'the event we have'
In [11]: planned = None
In [12]: print(planned)
None
In [13]: dir(planned)
Out[14]:
['__bool__',
'__class__',
'__delattr__',
'__dir__',
'__doc__',
'__eq__',
'__format__',
'__ge__',
'__getattribute__',
'__gt__',
'__hash__',
'__init__',
'__le__',
'__lt__',
'__ne__',
'__new__',
'__reduce__',
'__reduce_ex__',
'__repr__',
'__setattr__',
'__sizeof__',
'__str__',
'__subclasshook__']
Yamil PΓ©rez
Courses Plus Student 2,054 PointsYamil PΓ©rez
Courses Plus Student 2,054 PointsThe challenge is asking to delete the variable planned using del. so, you just need to do this del planned.