Deleting tuple elements

We cannot remove individual tuple elements. So, to remove an entire tuple explicitly, use the del statement. Refer to the following example:

#!/usr/bin/python3
cities = ('Mumbai', 'Bangalore', 'Chennai', 'Pune')
print ("Before deleting: ", cities)
del cities
print ("After deleting: ", cities)

Output:
Before deleting: ('Mumbai', 'Bangalore', 'Chennai', 'Pune')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "01.py", line 5, in <module>
print ("After deleting: ", cities)
NameError: name 'cities' is not defined