How to Delete the Contents of a Folder in Python

In Python, there are 2 ways to delete the contents of a folder
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Using rmtree Method

The shutil.rmtree() method deletes an entire directory tree; path must point to a directory. For example,

#!/usr/bin/python3

# Import module
import os, shutil

def remove_dir(path):

  for filename in os.listdir(path):
    filepath = os.path.join(path, filename)
    try:
      if os.path.isfile(filepath) or os.path.islink(filepath):
        os.unlink(filepath)
      elif os.path.isdir(filepath):
        shutil.rmtree(filepath)
    except Exception as e:
      print(e)

remove_dir("abcde")

  







Using glob Method



You can simply do this:





  
#!/usr/bin/python3

# Import module
import os, glob

files = glob.glob('abcde/*')
# files = glob.glob('abcde/*.txt')

for f in files:
  os.remove(f)

  



  





    


        

      
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