the del statement will delete values at an index in list all of the values in the list after the deleted value will be moved up one index for exampleenter the following into the interactive shellspam ['cat''bat''rat''elephant'del spam[ spam ['cat''bat''elephant'del spam[ spam ['cat''bat'the del statement can also be used on simple variable to delete itas if it were an "unassignmentstatement if you try to use the variable after deleting ityou will get nameerror error because the variable no longer exists in practiceyou almost never need to delete simple variables the del statement is mostly used to delete values from lists working with lists when you first begin writing programsit' tempting to create many individual variables to store group of similar values for exampleif wanted to store the names of my catsi might be tempted to write code like thiscatname 'zophiecatname 'pookacatname 'simoncatname 'lady macbethcatname 'fat-tailcatname 'miss cleoit turns out that this is bad way to write code (alsoi don' actually own this many catsi swear for one thingif the number of cats changesyour program will never be able to store more cats than you have variables these types of programs also have lot of duplicate or nearly identical code in them consider how much duplicate code is in the following programwhich you should enter into the file editor and save as allmycats pyprint('enter the name of cat :'catname input(print('enter the name of cat :'catname input(print('enter the name of cat :'catname input(print('enter the name of cat :'catname input(print('enter the name of cat :'catname input(print('enter the name of cat :'