How to overwrite a folder if it already exists when creating it with makedirs?

Question

The following code allows me to create a directory if it does not already exist.

dir = 'path_to_my_folder' if not os.path.exists(dir):     os.makedirs(dir) 

The folder will be used by a program to write text files into that folder. But I want to start with a brand new, empty folder next time my program opens up.

Is there a way to overwrite the folder (and create a new one, with the same name) if it already exists?

Answer 1

import os import shutil  dir = 'path_to_my_folder' if os.path.exists(dir):     shutil.rmtree(dir) os.makedirs(dir) 

Answer 2

import os import shutil  path = 'path_to_my_folder' if not os.path.exists(path):     os.makedirs(path) else:     shutil.rmtree(path)           # Removes all the subdirectories!     os.makedirs(path) 

How about that? Take a look at shutil's Python library!