When is del useful in python?

Question

I can\'t really think of any reason why python needs the del keyword (and most languages seem to not have a similar keyword). For instance, rather than deletin

Answer 1

Force closing a file after using numpy.load:

A niche usage perhaps but I found it useful when using numpy.load to read a file. Every once in a while I would update the file and need to copy a file with the same name to the directory.

I used del to release the file and allow me to copy in the new file.

Note I want to avoid the with context manager as I was playing around with plots on the command line and didn't want to be pressing tab a lot!

See this question.