quick_delete_container.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import cloudfiles
import ConfigParser

# get our config from the config file
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read("./cf.ini")

USERNAME = config.get("auth", "username")
AUTH_URL = config.get("auth", "url")
API_KEY = config.get("auth", "key")

# create the connection object
conn = cloudfiles.get_connection(USERNAME, API_KEY, authurl = AUTH_URL)

def getandprint_all_containers():
    """ will get a list of containers
    and print them out to stdout"""

    containers = conn.get_all_containers()
    # print them all out
    print "These are all your containers..."
    for container in containers:
        print container.name


# container to delete
getandprint_all_containers()
print "\n"
CONTAINER = raw_input("enter the container name to delete: ")

# delete a container
try:
    conn.delete_container(CONTAINER)
except(cloudfiles.errors.NoSuchContainer):
    print "Sorry - there is no container called \'%s\'" % CONTAINER
except(cloudfiles.errors.ContainerNotEmpty):
    print "Sorry - container \'%s\' is not empty" % CONTAINER
else:
    print "Container \'%s\' deleted successfully\n" % CONTAINER
    getandprint_all_containers()