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Deleting an index

If you have an index that has gone stale, perhaps it's time to delete it! Deleting an index will also delete all of the data it contains, so be cautious when doing this in your own projects!

This exercise is part of the course

Vector Databases for Embeddings with Pinecone

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Exercise instructions

  • Initialize the Pinecone connection with your API key.
  • Delete the index you've been working with: "my-first-index".
  • List your indexes to verify it has been deleted.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Set up the client with your API key
pc = Pinecone(api_key="____")

# Delete your Pinecone index
____

# List your indexes
print(____)
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