python: delete non-empty dir [duplicate]

Answer 1

The standard library includes shutil.rmtree for this. By default,

shutil.rmtree(path)  # errors if dir not empty

will give OSError: [Errno 66] Directory not empty: .

You can delete the directory and its contents anyway by ignoring the error:

shutil.rmtree(role_fs_path, ignore_errors=True)

You can perform more sophisticated error handling by also passing onerrror=.