I'm working on a test case for which I create some subdirs. However, I don't seem to have the permission to remove them anymore. My UA is an Administrator account (Windows XP).
I first tried:
folder="c:/temp/"
for dir in os.listdir(folder):
os.remove(folder+dir)
and then
folder="c:/temp/"
os.remove(folder+"New Folder")
because I'm sure "New Folder" is empty. However, in all cases I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'c:/temp/New Folder'
Does anybody know what's going wrong?
os.remove
requires a file path, and raises OSError
if path is a directory.
Try os.rmdir(folder+'New Folder')
Which will:
Remove (delete) the directory path. Only works when the directory is empty, otherwise, OSError is raised.
Making paths is also safer using os.path.join
:
os.path.join("c:\\", "temp", "new folder")
try the inbuilt shutil module
shutil.rmtree(folder+"New Folder")
this recursively deletes a directory, even if it has contents.
os.remove()
only works on files. It doesn't work on directories. According to the documentation:
os.remove(path) Remove (delete) the file path. If path is a directory, OSError is raised; see rmdir() below to remove a directory. This is identical to the unlink() function documented below. On Windows, attempting to remove a file that is in use causes an exception to be raised; on Unix, the directory entry is removed but the storage allocated to the file is not made available until the original file is no longer in use.
use os.removedirs()
for directories
U can use Shutil module to delete the dir and its sub folders
import os
import shutil
for dir in os.listdir(folder):
shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(folder,dir))
For Python 3.6, the file permission mode should be 0o777:
os.chmod(filePath, 0o777)
os.remove(filePath)
File is in read only mode so change the file permission by os.chmod()
function and then try with os.remove()
.
Ex:
Change the file Permission to 0777
and then remove the file.
os.chmod(filePath, 0777)
os.remove(filePath)
The reason you can't delete folders because to delete subfolder in C: drive ,you need admin privileges Either invoke admin privileges in python or do the following hack
Make a simple .bat file with following shell command
del /q "C:\Temp\*"
FOR /D %%p IN ("C:\temp\*.*") DO rmdir "%%p" /s /q
Save it as file.bat and call this bat file from your python file
Bat file will handle deleting subfolders from C: drive
If you want remove folder, you can use
os.rmdir(path)
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11625062/cant-remove-a-folder-with-os-remove-windowserror-error-5-access-is-denied