How do I delete a directory tree with pathlib?

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I have a project using pathlib and I want to do the equivalent of shutil.rmtree.

I thought of doing it with something like:

def pathlib_rmtree(folder):
    if folder.exists():
        for file in folder.glob('**/*'):
            if file.is_dir():
                file.rmdir()
            else:
                file.unlink()
        folder.rmdir()

but I am not sure whether the folder.glob('**/*') is guaranteed to be ordered so that all the subfolders are empty before calling rmdir.

So the question is twofold:

Is there a better way to recursively delete a directory with pathlib?
Does glob guarantees the order of its result so that all the files are returned before the subfolder they belong to?

Asked By: Jacques Gaudin

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Answer 1

Actually this can be done with iterdir rather than glob:

def rmtree(root):

    for p in root.iterdir():
        if p.is_dir():
            rmtree(p)
        else:
            p.unlink()

    root.rmdir()

Answered By: Jacques Gaudin

How do I delete a directory tree with pathlib?

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