Listing compartments in OCI using Python

We learn how to simply list all compartments of a given compartment in Oracle Cloud using Python.

Prerequisites

1. Configured the OCI profile in ~/.oci/config. For more info, see Setting up the OCI Configuration File using API Keys

Steps

1. pip install oci

Install the oci pip package

pip install oci

2. Write the Python script

# main.py
import oci

config = oci.config.from_file("~/.oci/config", "DEFAULT")
identity = oci.identity.IdentityClient(config)
compartments = identity.list_compartments(config["tenancy"]).data
for compartment in compartments:
    print(compartment.name)

3. Run the script

Run the file using

python main.py

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