CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
user308827
user308827

Reputation: 21961

Deleting folder only if it does not contain any files

Is there a way to delete a folder in python if it does not contain any files? I can do the foll:

os.rmdir() will remove an empty directory.

shutil.rmtree() will delete a directory and all its contents.

If the folder has empty sub-folders, it should be deleted too

Upvotes: 1

Views: 471

Answers (1)

McGrady
McGrady

Reputation: 11477

os.removedirs(path)

Remove directories recursively. Works like rmdir() except that, if the leaf directory is successfully removed, removedirs() tries to successively remove every parent directory mentioned in path until an error is raised (which is ignored, because it generally means that a parent directory is not empty).

e.g.

import os
if not os.listdir(dir):
    os.removedirs(dir)

See more details from os.removedirs.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 2

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