What do you mean by delete? In Python, removing a reference (or a name) can be done with the del keyword, but if there are other names to the same object that object will not be deleted.
--> test = 3
--> print(test)
3
--> del test
--> print(test)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'test' is not defined
compared to:
--> test = 5
--> other is test # check that both name refer to the exact same object
True
--> del test # gets rid of test, but the object is still referenced by other
--> print(other)
5