From 7ccc0a522d9e82ab02b22897ea24c70066303fc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ghislainp <ghislain.picard@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 02:09:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] _bulk_delete must always return a list, even when pathlist is
 empty (#866)

---
 s3fs/core.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/s3fs/core.py b/s3fs/core.py
index d6eb4e45..2da6f0bd 100644
--- a/s3fs/core.py
+++ b/s3fs/core.py
@@ -1954,7 +1954,7 @@ async def _bulk_delete(self, pathlist, **kwargs):
             Must have 0 < len <= 1000
         """
         if not pathlist:
-            return
+            return []
         buckets = {self.split_path(path)[0] for path in pathlist}
         if len(buckets) > 1:
             raise ValueError("Bulk delete files should refer to only one bucket")