How to remove a directory including all its files in python?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

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