Boto3 delete object inside directory

Question

I have the following snippet:

import boto3

session = boto3.Session(
    aws_access_key_id="id",
    aws_secret_access_key="secret",
    region_name="us-east-1"
)

s3 = session.resource("s3")
obj = s3.Object("mybucket", "test.txt")


obj.delete()

It works fine if the file is on the root of the bucket, but I need to delete a file inside a directory. My file is under: mybucket/media/private/test.txt

Adding the path to "mybucket" or "test.txt" in the s3.Object() is not working

Solution

The keyname in S3 contains also the directory path, there are no real directories in buckets.
Do it like this:

s3 = session.resource("s3")
obj = s3.Object("mybucket", "media/private/test.txt")
obj.delete()

Comments

[Michael - sqlbot]

There shouldn't be a leading slash in the object key. I think boto3 quietly removes it for you, so this may work as written, but it isn't precisely correct.

[Abilash Amarasekaran]

Hi I wanted to ask how to use this if we only know partial file name. ie I know only test as the file name instead of test-1xxxxx222.txt. How could I use this to delete it?

[Zach Rieck]

@AbilashAmarasekaran Use the startswith method (i.e. if file.startswith('test') : file.delete() ) (programiz.com/python-programming/methods/string/startswith)