How to use Boto3 library in Python to delete an object from S3 using AWS Resource?


In this article, we will see how to delete an object from S3 using Boto 3 library of Python.

Example − Delete test.zip from Bucket_1/testfolder of S3

Approach/Algorithm to solve this problem

Step 1 − Import boto3 and botocore exceptions to handle exceptions.

Step 2 − s3_files_path is parameter in function.

Step 3 − Validate the s3_files_path is passed in AWS format as s3://bucket_name/key.

Step 4 − Create an AWS session using boto3 library.

Step 5 − Create an AWS resource for S3.

Step 6 − Split the S3 path and perform operations to separate the root bucket name and the object path to delete.

Step 7 − Now, use the function delete_object and pass the bucket name and key to delete.

Step 8 − The object is also a dictionary having all the details of a file. Now, fetch the LastModified detail of each file and compare with the given date timestamp.

Step 9 − Handle the generic exception if something went wrong while deleting the file.

Example

Use the following code to delete an object from S3 −

import boto3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError

def delete_objects_from_s3(s3_files_path):
   if 's3://' not in s3_files_path:
      raise Exception('Given path is not a valid s3 path.')
   session = boto3.session.Session(profile_name='saml')
   s3_resource = session.resource('s3')
   s3_tokens = s3_files_path.split('/')
   bucket_name = s3_tokens[2]
   object_path = ""
   filename = s3_tokens[len(s3_tokens) - 1]
   print('bucket_name: ' + bucket_name)

   if len(s3_tokens) > 4:
      for tokn in range(3, len(s3_tokens) - 1):
         object_path += s3_tokens[tokn] + "/"
      object_path += filename
   else:
      object_path += filename
   print('object: ' + object_path)
   try:
      result = s3_resource.meta.client.delete_object(Bucket=bucket_name, Key=object_path)
   except ClientError as e:
      raise Exception( "boto3 client error in delete_objects_from_s3 function: " + e.__str__())
   except Exception as e:
      raise Exception( "Unexpected error in delete_objects_from_s3 function of s3 helper: " + e.__str__())

#delete test.zip
print(delete_objects_from_s3("s3://Bucket_1/testfolder/test.zip")

Output

bucket_name: Bucket_1
object: testfolder/test.zip

Updated on: 22-Mar-2021

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