python: delete non-empty dir
Question:
How do I delete a possibly non-empty dir in Python.
The directory may have nested subdirectories many levels deep.
Answers:
Use shutil.rmtree:
import shutil
shutil.rmtree(path)
See the documentation for details of how to handle and/or ignore errors.
You want shutil.rmtree
shutil.rmtree(path[, ignore_errors[,
onerror]])
Delete an entire directory
tree; path must point to a directory
(but not a symbolic link to a
directory). If ignore_errors is true,
errors resulting from failed removals
will be ignored; if false or omitted,
such errors are handled by calling a
handler specified by onerror or, if
that is omitted, they raise an
exception.
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: <your/path>.
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=<some function(function, path, excinfo)>.
How do I delete a possibly non-empty dir in Python.
The directory may have nested subdirectories many levels deep.
Use shutil.rmtree:
import shutil
shutil.rmtree(path)
See the documentation for details of how to handle and/or ignore errors.
You want shutil.rmtree
shutil.rmtree(path[, ignore_errors[,
onerror]])Delete an entire directory
tree; path must point to a directory
(but not a symbolic link to a
directory). If ignore_errors is true,
errors resulting from failed removals
will be ignored; if false or omitted,
such errors are handled by calling a
handler specified by onerror or, if
that is omitted, they raise an
exception.
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: <your/path>.
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=<some function(function, path, excinfo)>.