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drop partition
import datetime
start = datetime.datetime(2017, 8, 22)
end = datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 3)

now = start
partitions = []
while now <= end:
    dt = str(now.year) + str(now.month).zfill(2) + str(now.day).zfill(2)
    for h in range(24):
        partitions.append("drop partition (dt = {dt}, hour = {h});".format(dt=dt, h=h))

    now += datetime.timedelta(1)

for partition in partitions:
    print(partition)
    cursor.execute("""
               alter table sugar.conv
               {}
               """.format(partition)
              ) 
    cursor.fetchall()

# add partition
import datetime
start = datetime.datetime(2017, 8, 22)
end = datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 3)

now = start
partitions = []
while now <= end:
    dt = str(now.year) + str(now.month).zfill(2) + str(now.day).zfill(2)
    for h in range(24):
        partitions.append("partition (dt = {dt}, hour = {h}) location 's3://files.sugar/data/raw/sugar_conv/{dt}/{hh}'".format(dt=dt, h=h, hh=str(h).zfill(2)))

    now += datetime.timedelta(1)

cursor.execute("""
               alter table sugar.conv add
               {}
               """.format('\n'.join(partitions))
              )
cursor.fetchall()