What is the purpose of the del operator and pop method? Try deleting a slice.

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What is the purpose of the del operator and pop method? Try deleting a slice.

del operator is used to remove an individual item, or to remove all items identified by a slice. It is to be used as per syntax given below –

>>>del List[index]

>>>del List[start:stop]

pop method is used to remove single element, not list slices. The pop() method removes an individual item and returns it. Its syntax is –

>>>a=List.pop() #this will remove last item and deleted item will be assigned to a.

>>>a=List[10] # this will remove the ite at index 10 and deleted item will be assigned to a.