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

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Answer 1

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/"))

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

For Linux users, you can simply run the shell command in a pythonic way

import os
os.system("rm -r /home/user/folder_name")

where rm stands for remove and -r for recursively

Answer 4

Try shutil.rmtree:

import shutil
shutil.rmtree('/path/to/your/dir/')

Answer 5

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')

Answer 6

Try rmtree() in shutil from the Python standard library