Amazon S3 boto - how to delete folder?

Question

I created a folder in s3 named \"test\" and I pushed \"test_1.jpg\", \"test_2.jpg\" into \"test\".

How can I use boto to delete folder \"test\"?

Answer 1

You can use bucket.delete_keys() with a list of keys (with a large number of keys I found this to be an order of magnitude faster than using key.delete).

Something like this:

delete_key_list = []
for key in bucket.list(prefix='/your/directory/'):
    delete_key_list.append(key)
    if len(delete_key_list) > 100:
        bucket.delete_keys(delete_key_list)
        delete_key_list = []

if len(delete_key_list) > 0:
    bucket.delete_keys(delete_key_list)