#3471·boto3

S3 resource API delete method references capability not present in function args

Author: corey-coleCreated Oct 26, 2022Updated Jul 24, 2026
Labelsbugdocumentations3resourcesp3

Describe the issue

The documentation for deletion of S3 object versions via the resource API includes this paragraph:

The action supports two modes for the response: verbose and quiet. By default, the action uses verbose mode in which the response includes the result of deletion of each key in your request. In quiet mode the response includes only keys where the delete action encountered an error. For a successful deletion, the action does not return any information about the delete in the response body.

There is no parameter available in the example call that would control quiet/verbose modes. This text appears to come directly from the documentation for the S3 DeleteObjects API. However, it is not apparent from both sets of documentation how a user might enable the quiet mode.

The S3 client API documentation does include this information.

Links

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/s3.html#S3.Bucket.object_versions https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/s3.html#S3.Bucket.objects