Using python import os
and os.system("create-object "+ more-specifications)
, I created a few hundreds of objects, which I now need to delete. I can list the objects created, including their unique id
.
To delete just one of them, on the command line, I issue
delete-object --id cfa2d1417633
which will ask for confirmation with
Are you sure you want to delete that object (y or n)?>
to which I then respont with y
.
I can generate a list of the id’s to delete, but I can’t programatically delete them because I don’t know how to respond. This, for instance won’t work:
for objectSpecification in objectList: os.system("delete-object --id "+ objectSpecification["id"]) os.system('n')
The delete will not happen and te ‘n’ causes an error 'n' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
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Answer
Converting to an answer from comment.
Suggestion to a solution, using popen:
import os objectList = [] def deleteObject(objid): with os.popen(f"delete-object --id {objid}", "w") as p: p.write("yn") for objectSpecification in objectList: deleteObject(objectSpecification['id'])