From 29e464f9426878a4cf79e282b2d834b79cc6e469 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kurt Smith <ksmith@enthought.com>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 16:24:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Context.delete_key ignores NameErrors.

---
 distarray/context.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/distarray/context.py b/distarray/context.py
index 74434670..b1db6f1e 100644
--- a/distarray/context.py
+++ b/distarray/context.py
@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ def _key_and_push(self, *values):
 
     def delete_key(self, key):
         """ Delete the specific key from all the engines. """
-        cmd = 'del %s' % key
+        cmd = ('try: del %s\n'
+               'except NameError: pass') % key
         self._execute(cmd)
 
     def cleanup(self):