delitemself
Delitemself is a term used in some programming discussions to describe the pattern of implementing a deletion operation on items contained within an object, using the object’s own methods and context. It is not an official keyword or standardized feature in major languages, and its meaning can vary by author. When discussed in relation to Python, the closest official concept is the __delitem__ method, which is part of Python’s data model and is invoked when an item is deleted from a container that supports item deletion using the del operator.
Definition: A class that defines a __delitem__(self, key) method enables code such as del obj[key] to trigger
self.data = {}
d.data['x'] = 1
Usage and considerations: Implementing __delitem__ provides control over how deletion behaves, enabling cleanup of related state,
See also: __delitem__, deletion protocol, Python data model.