Remove all files in a directory

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Trying to remove all of the files in a certain directory gives me the follwing error      OSError   Errno 2  No such file or directory    home me test      The code I m running is   import os test     home me test    os remove test

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This will get all files in a directory and remove them   import os  BASE DIR   os path dirname os path abspath   file     dir   os path join BASE DIR   foldername    for root  dirs  files in os walk dir     for file in files      path   os path join dir  file      os remove path

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Please see my answer here   https   stackoverflow com a 24844618 2293304  It s a long and ugly  but reliable and efficient solution   It resolves a few problems which are not addressed by the other answerers    It correctly handles symbolic links  including not calling shutil rmtree   on a symbolic link  which will pass the os path isdir   test if it links to a directory   It handles read-only files nicely

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star is expanded by Unix shell  Your call is not accessing shell  it s merely trying to remove a file with the name ending with the star

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os remove will only remove a single file   In order to remove with wildcards  you ll need to write your own routine that handles this   There are quite a few suggested approaches listed on this forum page

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os remove doesn t resolve unix-style patterns  If you are on a unix-like system you can   os system  rm   test    Else you can   import glob  os test     path    r   glob glob test  for i in r     os remove i

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Although this is an old question  I think none has already answered using this approach     python 2 7 import os  d   home me test  filesToRemove    os path join d f  for f in os listdir d   for f in filesToRemove      os remove f

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python 2 7 import tempfile import shutil import exceptions import os  def TempCleaner        temp dir name   tempfile gettempdir       for currentdir in os listdir temp dir name           try             shutil rmtree os path join temp dir name  currentdir           except exceptions WindowsError  e              print u                       e filename

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os remove   does not work on a directory  and os rmdir   will only work on an empty directory  And Python won t automatically expand   home me test    like some shells do   You can use shutil rmtree   on the directory to do this  however   import shutil shutil rmtree   home me test      be careful as it removes the files and the sub-directories as well

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To Removing all the files in folder   import os import glob  files   glob glob os path join  path to folder      files   glob glob os path join  path to folder   csv       It will give all csv files in folder for file in files      os remove file

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Another way I ve done this   os popen  rm -f   yourdir

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Because the   is a shell construct   Python is literally looking for a file named     in the directory  home me test   Use listdir to get a list of the files first and then call remove on each one

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shutil rmtree   for most cases  But it doesn t work for in Windows for readonly files  For windows import win32api and win32con modules from PyWin32   def rmtree dirname       retry   True     while retry          retry   False         try              shutil rmtree dirname          except exceptions WindowsError  e              if e winerror    5    No write permission                 win32api SetFileAttributes dirname  win32con FILE ATTRIBUTE NORMAL                  retry   True

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Bit of a hack but if you would like to keep the directory  the following can be used    import os import shutil shutil rmtree   home me test    os mkdir   home me test

[python] Remove all files in a directory

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