Which is better in python, del or delattr?

Question

This may be silly, but it\'s been nagging the back of my brain for a while.

Python gives us two built-in ways to delete attributes from objects, the del

Answer 1

If you think delattr is more explicit, then why not used getattr all the time rather than object.attr?

As for under the hood... your guess is as good as mine. If not significantly better.