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user8892462
user8892462

Reputation:

How to delete all folders inside folder using python?

Is it possible to delete all folders inside a folder without using a specific path?, Here i am moving the contents of the file then after that i want to delete if it is a dir

import os, zipfile
import shutil
import os
from os import path


dir_name = 'C:\\Users\\Guest\\Desktop\\OJT\\samples'
destination = 'C:\\Users\\Guest\\Desktop\\OJT\\scanner\\test'
for path, subdirs, files in os.walk(destination):
    for name in files:
        filename = os.path.join(path, name)
        shutil.copy2(filename, destination)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 782

Answers (3)

Vineeth Sai
Vineeth Sai

Reputation: 3447

Yes it is, Use shutil's rmtree method.

import shutil 
shutil.rmtree('directory') # the directory you want to remove
os.listdir()

You can also use os.rmdir but that won't work if there is any content in it.

If you want to check if that specific path is a directory then you can use os.path.isdir then run rmtree if that returns TRUE

And incase you want to keep the root folder intact then you could walk that directory and calling rmtree on each item.

Upvotes: 7

Kishor Pawar
Kishor Pawar

Reputation: 3526

If Vineeth's answer is not suitable for your case, you could you subprocess module to run os specific commands like below

import subprocess
subprocess.call('rm -rf /path/of/the/dirctory/*', shell=True)

The above command is linux specific, you could use windows counterpart of the same command above.

Note - Here shell=True will expand * into files/folders.

Also, note Vineeth's answer is os independent, and above will be os specific. Be cautious.

P.S. - You can also run powershell commands using subprocess module.

Upvotes: 1

RoadRunner
RoadRunner

Reputation: 26315

As suggested by @Vineeth Sai earlier, If you want to delete all sub directories in a directory, just loop through each file with os.listdir() and if the file is a directory, apply shutil.rmtree():

from os import listdir

from os.path import abspath
from os.path import isdir
from os.path import join

from shutil import rmtree

path = 'YOUR PATH HERE'

for file in listdir(path):
    full_path = join(abspath(path), file)

    if isdir(full_path):
        rmtree(full_path)

The above also uses os.isdir() to check if a file is a directory.

Upvotes: 1

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