I am relatively new to object oriented programming and I cannot figure out how to delete an instantiated object in Python.

if self.hit_paddle(pos) == True or self.hit_paddle2(pos) == True:bar = bar + 1
if bar == 1:global barbox1barbox1 = barfill(canvas)barbox1.canvas.move(barbox1.id, 253, 367)
if bar == 2:global barbox2barbox2 = barfill(canvas)barbox2.canvas.move(barbox5.id, 413, 367)bar = 0time.sleep(0.2)barbox1 = Nonebarbox2 = None

That is the code, the main thing I was trying in order to delete the objects was barbox1 = None, but that doesn't seem to work.

object.__del__(self) is called when the instance is about to be destroyed.

>>> class Test:
...     def __del__(self):
...         print "deleted"
... 
>>> test = Test()
>>> del test
deleted

Object is not deleted unless all of its references are removed(As quoted by ethan)

Also, From Python official doc reference:

del x doesn’t directly call x.__del__() — the former decrements the reference count for x by one, and the latter is only called when x‘s reference count reaches zero