delete versioned AWS s3 buckets with boto3

delete_versioned_s3_buckets.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# for listing and selecting the buckets you want to delete use list_s3_buckets.py gist

import boto3

# list of the bucket names you want to delete
BUCKETS_TO_DELETE = []

def delete_versioned_bucket(s3resource, bucket_name):
    print(f'started deleting bucket {bucket_name}')
    bucket = s3resource.Bucket(bucket_name)
    bucket.object_versions.delete()
    bucket.delete()
    print(f'deleted bucket {bucket_name}')
    
s3resource = boto3.resource('s3')

# delete the buckets
for bucket_name in BUCKETS_TO_DELETE:
    delete_versioned_bucket(s3resource, bucket_name)