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Can <https://github.com/treeverse/lakeFS/blob/master/clients/python/docs/ObjectsApi.md#delete_object|delete_object> Python API be enhanced to recursively delete all objects under the specified path? `lakectl fs rm` command already has this functionality but Python API doesn’t.

Hi <@U03LX018K7X>,
Our python client is automatically generated, so it supports only commands supported by the lakeFS API.
lakeFS API doesn’t support recursive delete (same as S3).
You could use <https://pydocs.lakefs.io/docs/ObjectsApi.html#delete_objects|delete_objects>, but you will still need to provide the list of the objects you want to delete.
This functionality is also not supported in boto3, maybe this <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11426560/amazon-s3-boto-how-to-delete-folder|thread> in stackoverflow could help (it’s for boto3 but the concept is the same).

<@U017Y8JGFB7> Thanks. I am just curious to know, how did we implement this in lakectl because it works with lakectl:
<https://docs.lakefs.io/reference/commands.html#lakectl-fs-rm>

It sure does, lakectl is a client we implemented and has much more capabilities than the generated clients. the python client is a generated client that is automatically generated from the API.