delete()

This method deletes one or more entities from a collection.

Invocation

delete(
    collection_name,
    pks,
    timeout
)

Parameter	Description	Type	Required
`collection_name`	Name of the collection from which data is deleted.	String	True
`pks`	Primary keys of the entities to delete.	Union[list, str, int]	True
`timeout`	An optional duration of time in seconds to allow for the RPC. If it is set to None, the client keeps waiting until the server responds or error occurs.	Float	False

None

None

Delete an entity by a primary key of a string:

from pymilvus import MilvusClient

client = MilvusClient(uri, token)

client.delete(
    collection_name='my-collection1',
    pks='pk-1'
)

Delete an entity by a primary key of an integer:

from pymilvus import MilvusClient

client = MilvusClient(uri, token)

client.delete(
    collection_name='my-collection2',
    pks=256
)

Delete multiple entities by primary keys:

from pymilvus import MilvusClient

client = MilvusClient(uri, token)

client.delete(
    collection_name='my-collection3',
    pks=['pk-1', 'pk-2']
)

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