Scan DynamoDB with boto3

Question

I am currently trying to scan an entire DynamoDB table and looking for specific values under specific attributes. If those values match with what I am looking for, I want my python code to delete the entire DynamoDB item. So far, I currently have:

    dynamodb = boto3.resource('dynamodb')
    table = dynamodb.Table('name-of-table-here')
    response = table.scan()
    data = response['Items']

I wanted to have something like this:

    for item in data:
       if valueOfAttribute == value_being_searched:
          delete DynamoDB item
       else:
          pass

Not sure how to go about this. Any suggestions are appreciated, thank you!

Answer 1

I was able to successfully solve this with the FilterExpression as suggested in a previous comment.

Here is what I came up with:

    import boto3
    from boto3.dynamodb.conditions import Key

    fe = Key('attribute').eq('value')

    response = table.scan(
    FilterExpression=fe)
    data = response['Items']