delattr()

Allows the user to delete attributes from an object.

Syntax

delattr(object, name)

Parameters

• object: The object to have an attribute removed.
• name: The attribute to be removed from the object.

Example 1

Use delattr() to remove the position attribute from the Person1 class:

class Person1:
  name = "Harry"
  age = "35"
  position = "Professor"

employee1 = Person1()

print("Employee Name: ", employee1.name)
print("Employee Age: ", employee1.age)
print("Employee Position: ", employee1.position)

delattr(Person1, "position")

print("----  UPDATE  ----")
print("Employee Name: ", employee1.name)
print("Employee Age: ", employee1.age)

# Will cause an AttributeError because attribute is removed
print("Employee Position: ", employee1.position)