Calling rm from subprocess using wildcards does not remove the files

Question

I\'m trying to build a function that will remove all the files that start with \'prepend\' from the root of my project. Here\'s what I have so far

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Answer 1

I would try something like this (which also works on Windows, though I'm guessing that's not a concern for you:

def cleanup(prepend):
    prepend = str(prepend)
    PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
    for file_to_delete in [file for file in os.listdir(PROJECT_ROOT) if file.startswith(prepend)]:
        os.remove(file_to_delete)