Selecting a specific Collection by name and then deleting it

Question

I have been referred to a link which has already answered this, however the script in the linked page removes all of my collections. My collection is called "Animation". I am not currently working in this collection. So I am wanting to select this collection and delete it. The script i was referred to deletes everything. Thanks for the help...

import bpy
context = bpy.context
scene = context.scene

for c in scene.collection.children:
    scene.collection.children.unlink(c)

Answer 1

Use Context

So I am wanting to select this collection and delete it.

Further to Blender 2.80: Delete Collection or clear the intial scene in scripting mode

As is the case with most of blender making active in the UI gives it context.

The context collection can be the scene collection so don't want to delete that.

import bpy
from bpy import context

remove_collection_objects = True

coll = context.collection
scene = context.scene

if coll:
    if remove_collection_objects:
        obs = [o for o in coll.objects if o.users == 1]
        while obs:
            bpy.data.objects.remove(obs.pop())

    if coll is not scene.collection:
        bpy.data.collections.remove(coll)

Remove named collection and its unique objects

Script below will remove the default scene collection "Collection 1" and all objects within it.

Change name to collection to remove and set the remove_collection_objects toggle.

import bpy
#from bpy import context


name = "Collection 1"
remove_collection_objects = True

#coll = context.collection # 
coll = bpy.data.collections.get(name)

if coll:
    if remove_collection_objects:
        obs = [o for o in coll.objects if o.users == 1]
        while obs:
            bpy.data.objects.remove(obs.pop())

    bpy.data.collections.remove(coll)

Answer 2

You can access the collection directly with :

bpy.data.collections['Animation']

So you just have to :

import bpy

col_name = 'Animation'

try:
    bpy.data.collections.remove(bpy.data.collections[col_name])
except KeyError:  # Prevent failure if the collection doesn't exist
    print(f"The collection {col_name} doesn't exist")

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