Amazon S3 multiple object delete using aws or boto

Question

I would like to try amazone feature delete multiple object but using boto or aws.

How can I lanuch a POST request using boto or aws ?? Below is the stuff I wanna try :

POST /?delete HTTP/1.1
Host: bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com
Authorization: authorization string
Content-Length: Size
Content-MD5: MD5

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Delete>
    <Quiet>true</Quiet>
    <Object>
         <Key>Key</Key>
         <VersionId>VersionId</VersionId>
    </Object>
    <Object>
         <Key>Key</Key>
    </Object>
    ...
</Delete>           

Cheers

Answer 1

Boto provides support for MultiDelete. Here's an example of how you would use it:

import boto.s3
conn = boto.s3.connect_to_region('us-east-1')  # or whatever region you want
bucket = conn.get_bucket('mybucket')
keys_to_delete = ['mykey1', 'mykey2', 'mykey3', 'mykey4']
result = bucket.delete_keys(keys_to_delete)

The result will provide information about which delete operations were successful and which, if any, failed. If you want the Quiet mode which tells you only about failures, pass in quiet=True to the delete_keys call.