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# delete_files

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.delete_files"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">delete\_files</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">file\_names</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">options</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L26508"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Deletes one or more files from <a className="reference external" href="/content/tools/kifs/">KiFS</a>.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">file\_names (<span className="em">list of str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>An array of names of files to be deleted. File paths may contain wildcard characters after the KiFS directory delimiter.</p>
              <p>Accepted wildcard characters are asterisk (\*) to represent any string of zero or more characters, and question mark (?) to indicate a single character. The user can provide a single element (which will be automatically promoted to a list internally) or a list.</p>
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              <p>Optional parameters. Allowed keys are:</p>

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                  <p><strong>no\_error\_if\_not\_exists</strong> – If <span className="em">true</span>, no error is returned if a specified file does not exist. Allowed values are:</p>

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                      <p>true</p>
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                      <p>false</p>
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                  <p>The default value is ‘false’.</p>
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              <p>The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>A dict with the following entries–</p>

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              <p>Names of the files deleted from KiFS.</p>
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              <p>Additional information.</p>
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