How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty with Python?

How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty with Python?

I am getting an 'access is denied' error when I attempt to delete a folder that is not empty. I used the following command in my attempt: os.remove("/folder_name").

What is the most effective way of removing/deleting a folder/directory that is not empty?

Answer by ddaa for How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty with Python?

import shutil    shutil.rmtree('/folder_name')  

Standard Library Reference: shutil.rmtree.

Answer by kkubasik for How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty with Python?

From the python docs on os.walk():

# Delete everything reachable from the directory named in 'top',  # assuming there are no symbolic links.  # CAUTION:  This is dangerous!  For example, if top == '/', it  # could delete all your disk files.  import os  for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False):      for name in files:          os.remove(os.path.join(root, name))      for name in dirs:          os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, name))  

Answer by P M for How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty with Python?

if you are sure, that you want to delete the entire dir tree, and are no more interested in contents of dir, then crawling for entire dir tree is stupidness... just call native OS command from python to do that. It will be faster, efficient and less memory consuming.

RMDIR c:\blah /s /q   

or *nix

rm -rf /home/whatever   

In python, the code will look like..

import sys  import os    mswindows = (sys.platform == "win32")    def getstatusoutput(cmd):      """Return (status, output) of executing cmd in a shell."""      if not mswindows:          return commands.getstatusoutput(cmd)      pipe = os.popen(cmd + ' 2>&1', 'r')      text = pipe.read()      sts = pipe.close()      if sts is None: sts = 0      if text[-1:] == '\n': text = text[:-1]      return sts, text      def deleteDir(path):      """deletes the path entirely"""      if mswindows:           cmd = "RMDIR "+ path +" /s /q"      else:          cmd = "rm -rf "+path      result = getstatusoutput(cmd)      if(result[0]!=0):          raise RuntimeError(result[1])  

Answer by Siva Mandadi for How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty with Python?

import shutil  shutil.rmtree(dest, ignore_errors=True)  

Answer by shiny for How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty with Python?

shutil.rmtree(path,ignore_errors=False,onerror=errorRemoveReadonly)   def errorRemoveReadonly(func, path, exc):      excvalue = exc[1]      if func in (os.rmdir, os.remove) and excvalue.errno == errno.EACCES:          # change the file to be readable,writable,executable: 0777          os.chmod(path, stat.S_IRWXU | stat.S_IRWXG | stat.S_IRWXO)            # retry          func(path)      else:          raiseenter code here  

If ignore_errors is set, errors are ignored; otherwise, if onerror is set, it is called to handle the error with arguments (func, path, exc_info) where func is os.listdir, os.remove, or os.rmdir; path is the argument to that function that caused it to fail; and exc_info is a tuple returned by sys.exc_info(). If ignore_errors is false and onerror is None, an exception is raised.enter code here

Answer by yota for How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty with Python?

from python 3.4 you may use :

import pathlib    def delete_folder(pth) :      for sub in pth.iterdir() :          if sub.is_dir() :              delete_folder(sub)          else :              sub.unlink()      pth.rmdir()  

where pth is a pathlib.Path instance. Nice, but slow.

Answer by Charles Chow for How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty with Python?

Base on kkubasik's answer, check if folder exists before remove, more robust

import shutil  def remove_folder(path):      # check if folder exists      if os.path.exists(path):           # remove if exists           shutil.rmtree(path)  remove_folder("/folder_name")  

Answer by lavee singh for How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty with Python?

You can use os.system command for simplicity:

import os  os.system("rm -rf dirname")  

As obvious, it actually invokes system terminal to accomplish this task.

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