dictionarywithout needing to specify the key take look at the following exampledict_sample "company""toyota""model""premio""year" dict_sample popitem(print(dict_sampleoutput{'company''toyota''model''premio'the last entry into the dictionary was "yearit has been removed after calling the popitem(function but what if you want to delete the entire dictionaryit would be difficult and cumbersome to use one of these methods on every single key insteadyou can use the del keyword to delete the entire dictionary for exampledict_sample "company""toyota""model""premio""year" del dict_sample print(dict_sampleoutputnameerrorname 'dict_sampleis not defined the code returns an error the reason is we are trying to access the an dictionary which is doesn' exist since it is has been deleted howeveryour use-case may require you to just remove all dictionary elements and be left with an empty dictionary this can be achieved by calling the clear(function on the dictionary