AWS DynamoDB snippets

How to delete data from a DynamoDB table with Python boto3

Please note that this snippet is part of the DynamoDB-Simpsons-episodes-full-example repository on GitHub.

Let's say you want to delete an item from the DynamoDB simpsonsEpisodes table.

table = dynamodbRes.Table(TABLENAME)

    response = table.delete_item(Key={
            'No_Season': 99,
            'No_Inseason' : 1
    })
print(response)
{'ResponseMetadata': {'RequestId': 'HDBP9LNV4B5R1HHM35KEORVPKNVV4KQNSO5AEMVJF66Q9ASUAAJG',
    'HTTPStatusCode': 200,
    'HTTPHeaders': {'server': 'Server',
     'date': 'Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:23:22 GMT',
     'content-type': 'application/x-amz-json-1.0',
     'content-length': '2',
     'connection': 'keep-alive',
     'x-amzn-requestid': 'HDBP9LNV4B5R1HHM35KEORVPKNVV4KQNSO5AEMVJF66Q9ASUAAJG',
     'x-amz-crc32': '2745614147'},
    'RetryAttempts': 0}}

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