Friday, April 22, 2011

How to delete all the files in a directory 

import os

dirPath = "/home/giu/pyExperiments/toRemove"
fileList = os.listdir(dirPath)
for fileName in fileList:
 os.remove(dirPath+"/"+fileName)
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14 comments:

  1. KevinJuly 18, 2012 at 6:20 PM

    dude, perfect ! thanks for this it really actually works, unlike all the crap over at stackoverflow.

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  2. UnknownAugust 20, 2012 at 7:20 AM

    Hey,

    Appreciated.

    A little improved code

    import os

    dirPath = "/home/giu/pyExperiments/toRemove"
    fileList = os.listdir(dirPath)
    [ os.remove(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(dirPath,fileName))) for fileName in fileList ]

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    1. UnknownMay 19, 2016 at 2:01 PM

      Hey buddy ! ,
      Your fileList do not works, as it work as a string not as a directory.
      Instead use this:

      [os.remove(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(destination, fileName))) for fileName in os.listdir(destination)

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  3. AnonymousAugust 28, 2012 at 8:48 PM

    Readability in OP is better.

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  4. Rasmus KristensenOctober 15, 2012 at 2:30 PM

    You will get an error if there is a folder in your dirPath. The 'crap' from stackoverflow does actually work:

    for filename in fileList:
    item=os.path.join(dirPath,fileList)
    if os.path.isfile(item):
    os.remove(item)

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    1. bhouglandOctober 27, 2017 at 4:53 PM

      this creates an error, the correct code is:


      for filename in fileList:
      item=os.path.join(dirPath,filename)
      if os.path.isfile(item):
      os.remove(item)

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  5. kapil agrawalOctober 28, 2012 at 5:04 PM

    gud 1..it helped..:)

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  6. AnonymousMay 5, 2013 at 8:43 PM

    Oops... using this code removed ALL dirs now I don;t have the OS
    What can do?

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  7. UnknownApril 26, 2014 at 4:48 AM

    One small tip:
    instead of
    dirPath+"/"+fileName

    I would recommend
    os.path.join(dirPath, fileName), which will insert a forward slash for Unix and Linux users, and a backslash for the Windows guys.

    An alternative just popped into my mind:


    dirPath = 'some/path'


    shutil.rmtree(dirPath)
    os.mkdir(dirPath)

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  8. AnonymousOctober 29, 2014 at 10:47 PM

    what a wonderful piece of code.. big thanks dude!!

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  9. AnonymousDecember 17, 2014 at 2:43 PM

    Thank you! Worked perfect for me.

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  10. SumantAugust 21, 2017 at 2:35 PM

    Thanks works perfectly

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  11. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2020 at 5:17 AM

    Well, that was a great help when I was urgent.
    Thank You

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  12. PulkitMay 10, 2020 at 1:27 AM

    Thanks! works perfectly

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