Deleting Stuff from Netbox with Pynetbox
As a warning to everyone, I am not a developer. I am a network engineer who is trying to do some automation stuff. Some of what I’m doing sounds logical to me, but I would not trust my own opinions for production work. I’m sure you can find a Slack channel or Mastodon instance with people who can tell you how to do things properly.
We’ve added stuff and updated stuff, so let’s delete some stuff. “Hey, man…you already did that,” you say? You’re right! When we started creating API tokens based on user/pass, we made sure to delete the token at the end. That means we should all be professional pynetbox deleters, then, right? 
When using pynetbox, we mostly deal with object. When updating, we get the object, make changes, then save it back to Netbox. We don’t say “update object 38718 with a new widget”; you actually manipulate an object. When we delete something, we do the same thing…get the object and delete it. Here’s a snippet of the token cleanup script to show that.
<SNIP>
all_tokens = nb_conn.users.tokens.all()
for token in all_tokens:
<SNIP>
token.delete()
<SNIP>
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