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def delete(self, condition=None)->MutationResult:
    """
    Delete entities by primary keys.
    Example: client.delete("_id in [1,10,100]")
    
    :param condition: an expression indicates whether an entity should be deleted
    :type  condition: str
    """
Delete API can be used to delete entities in the collection, and the deleted entities will no longer appear in the results of the Query and Search request.

`collection_name` is the name of colletion to delete entities from.
`expr` is an expression indicated whether an entity should be deleted in the collection. Only the `in` operator is supported in the Delete API. Document of expression: https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/blob/master/docs/design_docs/query_boolean_expr.md
`partition_name` is the name of partition to delete entities from, `None` means all partition.

`Delete` returns after being written into the insert channel, which means the delete request has been reliably saved and will be applied in search/query requests. The type of return value is MutationResult, which contains several properties, and only `_primary_keys` will be filled.

Same as Insert API, Milvus only guarantee the visibility of operations with a client. This means that, within the sequence of the operations "delete(), search()", the result of the search will not contains the entities deleted.

Since difference clients connect to different Proxy, the time between different Proxy is not exactly th same. So even if you manually call the delete method and the search method on two clients sequentially, it is uncertain whether the search request returns the deleted entities.

Currently, Milvus does not support dedup in inserting, so the delete operation will delete all satisfied entities.

Delete a non-existent entity is not an error, so delete() will not raise an Error.

"""

def delete(self, collection_name, expr, partition_name=None, timeout=None, **kwargs)->MutationResult:
    """
    Delete entities with an expression condition.
    And return results to show which primary key is deleted successfully

    :param collection_name: Name of the collection to delete entities from
    :type  collection_name: str

    :param expr: The query expression
    :type  expr: str

    :param partition_name: Name of partitions that contain entities
    :type  partition_name: str

    :param timeout: An optional duration of time in seconds to allow for the RPC. When timeout
                    is set to None, client waits until server response or error occur
    :type  timeout: float

    :return: listdelete ofrequest ids of the deleted vectorsexecuted results.
    :rtype: listMutationResult

    :raises:
        RpcError: If gRPC encounter an error
        ParamError: If parameters are invalid
        BaseException: If the return result from server is not ok
    """