the remove patch operation for a list of (path, value) tuples on an ApiKey resource list path

def _api_key_patch_remove(conn, apiKey, pvlist):
    '''
    the remove patch operation for a list of (path, value) tuples on an ApiKey resource list path
    '''
    response = conn.update_api_key(apiKey=apiKey,
                                   patchOperations=_api_key_patchops('remove', pvlist))
    return response