Finding empty directories in Python

Question

All,

What is the best way to check to see if there is data in a directory before deleting it? I am browsing through a couple pages to find some pics using wget and of course every page does not have an image on it but the directory is still created.

dir = 'Files\\%s' % (directory) os.mkdir(dir) cmd = 'wget -r -l1 -nd -np -A.jpg,.png,.gif -P %s %s' %(dir,  i[1]) os.system(cmd) if not os.path.isdir(dir):     os.rmdir(dir) 

I would like to test to see if a file was dropped in the directory after it was created. If nothing is there...delete it.

Thanks, Adam

Answer 1

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

LBYL style.
for EAFP, see mouad's answer.

Answer 2

I will go with EAFP like so:

try:     os.rmdir(dir) except OSError as ex:     if ex.errno == errno.ENOTEMPTY:         print "directory not empty" 

os.rmdir will not delete a directory that is not empty.