Deleting folders in python recursively

Question

I m having a problem with deleting empty directories  Here is my code  for dirpath  dirnames  filenames in os walk dir to search         other codes      try          os rmdir dirpath      except OSError as ex          print ex   The argument dir to search is where I m passing the directory where the work needs to be done  That directory looks like this  test 20     test 22     test 25     test 26      Note that all the above folders are empty  When I run this script the folders 20 25 alone gets deleted  But the folders 25 and 26 aren t deleted  even though they are empty folders  Edit  The exception that I m getting are   Errno 39  Directory not empty    home python-user shell-scripts s3logs test   Errno 39  Directory not empty    home python-user shell-scripts s3logs test 2012   Errno 39  Directory not empty    home python-user shell-scripts s3logs test 2012 10   Errno 39  Directory not empty    home python-user shell-scripts s3logs test 2012 10 29   Errno 39  Directory not empty    home python-user shell-scripts s3logs test 2012 10 29 tmp   Errno 39  Directory not empty    home python-user shell-scripts s3logs test 2012 10 28   Errno 39  Directory not empty    home python-user shell-scripts s3logs test 2012 10 28 tmp   Errno 39  Directory not empty    home python-user shell-scripts s3logs test 2012 10 26   Errno 39  Directory not empty    home python-user shell-scripts s3logs test 2012 10 25   Errno 39  Directory not empty    home python-user shell-scripts s3logs test 2012 10 27   Errno 39  Directory not empty    home python-user shell-scripts s3logs test 2012 10 27 tmp   Where am I making a mistake

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Try shutil rmtree   import shutil shutil rmtree   path to your dir

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The default behavior of os walk   is to walk from root to leaf  Set topdown False in os walk   to walk from leaf to root

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The command  given by Tomek  can t delete  a file  if it  is read only  therefore  one can use -  import os  sys import stat  def del evenReadonly action  name  exc       os chmod name  stat S IWRITE      os remove name   if  os path exists  test qt env        shutil rmtree  test qt env  onerror del evenReadonly

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Here is a recursive solution   def clear folder dir       if os path exists dir           for the file in os listdir dir               file path   os path join dir  the file              try                  if os path isfile file path                       os unlink file path                  else                      clear folder file path                      os rmdir file path              except Exception as e                  print e

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Try rmtree   in shutil from the Python standard library

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Just for the next guy searching for a micropython solution  this works purely based on os  listdir  remove  rmdir   It is neither complete  especially in errorhandling  nor fancy  it will however work in most circumstances   def deltree target       print  deltree   target      for d in os listdir target           try              deltree target         d          except OSError              os remove target         d       os rmdir target

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Here s my pure pathlib recursive directory unlinker   from pathlib import Path  def rmdir directory       directory   Path directory      for item in directory iterdir            if item is dir                rmdir item          else              item unlink       directory rmdir    rmdir Path  dir

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better to use absolute path and import only the rmtree function from shutil import rmtree  as this is a large package the above line will only import the required function   from shutil import rmtree rmtree  directory-absolute-path

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For Linux users  you can simply run the shell command in a pythonic way import os os system  quot rm -r  home user folder1   home user folder2      quot    If facing any issue then instead of rm -r use rm -rf but remember f will delete the directory forcefully  Where rm stands for remove  -r for recursively and -rf for recursively   forcefully  Note  It doesn t matter either the directories are empty or not  they ll get deleted

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Here s another pure-pathlib solution  but without recursion   from pathlib import Path from typing import Union  def del empty dirs base  Union Path  str        base   Path base      for p in sorted base glob          reverse True           if p is dir                p chmod 0o666              p rmdir           else              raise RuntimeError f  p parent  is not empty        base rmdir

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