Example python script to delete all docs from a couchdb database22.09.14

http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/api/database/misc.html

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to avoid the deletion of the design docs skip them:
with: if not(i['id'].startswith('_')):

example:

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#!/usr/bin/env python                                                                                                                                                                                              
import os
import sys
from operator import itemgetter
import json
import re
import pycouchdb
import couchdb

class Delete_all():
  def __init__(self):

couch = couchdb.Server('http://user:pass@127.0.0.1:5984/')
   db = couch['short_price']

docs =  db.view('_all_docs')
   ddocs = []
   for i in docs:
     if not(i['id'].startswith('_')):
       ddocs.append({'_id':i['id'],'_rev':i['value']['rev']})

#db.purge(ddocs)

if __name__ == "__main__":
  da = Delete_all()

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Example python script to delete all docs from a couchdb database22.09.14

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