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I'm working on some Python code. I want to remove the new_folder including all its files at the end of program.
Can someone please guide me how I can do that? I have seen different commands like os.rmdir but it only removes the path. Here is my code:
for files in sorted(os.listdir(path)): os.system("mv "+path+" new_folder")` The code above will move a folder (called check) into new_folder. I want to remove that check folder from the new_folder.
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To remove a directory and all its contents, including any subdirectories and files, use the rm command with the recursive option, -r . Directories that are removed with the rmdir command cannot be recovered, nor can directories and their contents removed with the rm -r command.
remove() method can be used to delete a specific file, and the os. rmdir() method can be used to remove an empty directory. In addition, you can use the shutil. rmtree() method to delete a folder that contains one or more files.
To delete multiple files, just loop over your list of files and use the above os. rmdir() function. To delete a folder containing all files you want to remove have to import shutil package. Then you can remove the folder as follows.
If you want to delete the file
import os os.remove("path_to_file") but you can`t delete directory by using above code if you want to remove directory then use this
import os os.rmdir("path_to_dir") from above command, you can delete a directory if it's empty if it's not empty then you can use shutil module
import shutil shutil.rmtree("path_to_dir") All above method are Python way and if you know about your operating system that this method depends on OS all above method is not dependent
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