Resolved: How to delete properties from an item in CosmosDB

Question:

I have a Python code to manage a collection in Cosmos DB by utilizing CosmosClient. It provides upsert_item, query_item, create_item, etc. But I need to delete properties from an existing item. Because the item could contain lots of properties, I wonder if there any better approach other than updating the whole item. I tried following code:
This only updated p1 and p2 to empty string instead of deleting them. Anyone knows how to delete them programmatically? Since the partitionKey is POLICY, I couldn’t delete them in the portal.

Answer:

To delete an item from a dictionary in Python, you will need to use del. So your code would be something like:

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