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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+#
+# Ceph - scalable distributed file system
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2011 New Dream Network
+#
+# This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License version 2.1, as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation. See file COPYING.
+#
+
+"""
+boto_del.py: simple bucket deletion program
+
+A lot of common s3 clients can't delete weirdly named buckets.
+But this little script can do it!
+"""
+
+from boto.s3.connection import OrdinaryCallingFormat
+from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
+from boto.s3.key import Key
+from sys import stderr
+import boto
+import os
+import sys
+
+bucket_name = sys.argv[1]
+conn = S3Connection(calling_format=OrdinaryCallingFormat(), is_secure=False,
+ aws_access_key_id=os.environ["AKEY"],
+ aws_secret_access_key=os.environ["SKEY"])
+bucket = conn.lookup(bucket_name)
+if (bucket == None):
+ print "bucket '%s' no longer exists" % bucket_name
+ sys.exit(0)
+
+print "deleting bucket '%s' ..." % bucket_name
+bucket.delete()
+print "done."
+sys.exit(0)