The del operator of bytearray class in Python

Overview:

The del operator in Python, when applied on a bytearray object removes one or more elements from the bytearray.
The bytearray is a mutable sequence of bytes. The removal of one or more elements using the del operator is one of the operations that makes the bytearray a mutable sequence. The other operations include replace and extend performed through the operators [], += and *=.

Example - Remove an element from a bytearray:

# Example Python program that removes an
# element from a given index

# Create a bytearray
songBytes = bytearray(b"School one day, school one day")
print("The bytearray:")
print(songBytes)

# Remove a byte given by an index
index = 14
del songBytes[index]
print("The bytearray after removing an element at position {}:".format(index))
print(songBytes)

Output:

The bytearray:
bytearray(b'School one day, school one day')
The bytearray after removing an element at position 14:
bytearray(b'School one day school one day')

Example - Remove a slice of elements from a bytearray:

# Example Python program that removes
# a slice of elements from a bytearray

# Create a bytearray
rhymeBytes = bytearray(b"Morning bells are ringing!")
print("Original bytearray:")
print(rhymeBytes)

# Remove a slice from the bytearray
sliceBegin = 13
sliceEnd = 17

del rhymeBytes[sliceBegin:sliceEnd]

print("The bytearray after removing a slice:")
print(rhymeBytes)

Output:

Original bytearray:
bytearray(b'Morning bells are ringing!')
The bytearray after removing a slice:
bytearray(b'Morning bells ringing!')