How to remove a directory including all its files in python?
python, python-2.7
Solution
If you want to delete the file
import os
os.remove("path_to_file")
but you can`t delete directory by using above code if you want to remove directory then use this
import os
os.rmdir("path_to_dir")
from above command, you can delete a directory if it's empty if it's not empty then you can use shutil module
import shutil
shutil.rmtree("path_to_dir")
All above method are Python way and if you know about your operating system that this method depends on OS all above method is not dependent
import os
os.system("rm -rf _path_to_dir")
Problem
I'm working on some Python code. I want to remove the `new_folder` including all its files at the end of program. Can someone please guide me how I can do that? I have seen different commands like os.rmdir but it only removes the path. Here is my code: ``` for files in sorted(os.listdir(path)): os.system("mv "+path+" new_folder")` ``` The code above will move a folder (called check) into new_folder. I want to remove that check folder from the new_folder.