How to delete the contents of a folder?

Question

How can I delete the contents of a local folder in Python?

The current project is for Windows, but I would like to see *nix also.

Answer 1

import os, shutil folder = '/path/to/folder' for filename in os.listdir(folder):     file_path = os.path.join(folder, filename)     try:         if os.path.isfile(file_path) or os.path.islink(file_path):             os.unlink(file_path)         elif os.path.isdir(file_path):             shutil.rmtree(file_path)     except Exception as e:         print('Failed to delete %s. Reason: %s' % (file_path, e)) 

Answer 2

You can simply do this:

import os import glob  files = glob.glob('/YOUR/PATH/*') for f in files:     os.remove(f) 

You can of course use an other filter in you path, for example : /YOU/PATH/*.txt for removing all text files in a directory.