PY3.E1138

Unsupported delete operation

Emitted when an object does not support item deletion (i.e. doesn't define delitem method).

Noncompliant Code:

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class Foo:
    def __init__(self, numbers):
        self.numbers = numbers

foo = Foo([1, 2, 3])
del foo[0]
print(foo.numbers)

Compliant Code:

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class Foo:
    def __init__(self, numbers):
        self.numbers = numbers

    def __delitem__(self, index):
        self.numbers.pop(index)

foo = Foo([1, 2, 3])
del foo[0]
print(foo.numbers)

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