how to delete files in python?

[Chintam]

Hi,

I am new to Python language.

I just want to know how to delete files in python?

Please help.

[Joyjeet]

Hi,

I have a similar question but not like you.
Well if you want to delete the file then you can simply use the remove() function in python.
In this way

import os
os.remove('path/file.extension')

My question is How to delete a file before writing it in a first place.
I mean i want to check if the file exist or not at a particular location & then if it exist then I want the script to delete it & write a new file.
Is this possible?
Please help

[Bhardwaj]

Hi Joyjeet,
The best solution to your question is to check if the file exist or not if not write a new file if exist then you simple have to open the file with w mode (like "f = open('filename', 'w')")
This will automatically truncate the existing file.

[Kusagra]

Well I want to know how to delete a folder will all its contents?
I mean to say how to delete the folder consisting of all the files & sub folders in it?

[danthemango]

How to delete full folder with it's contents?

os.remove('path/folder')

will remove a folder, but it must be empty. You could probably write something with os.remove and os.walk, but there's also;

shutil.rmtree('path/folder')

which will delete a folder and all of it's contents (don't forget to import shutil)

[janysek]

This are he script for delete files in python.
>>> import os
>>> file = 'myfile'
>>> os.remove('hfkg/' + file)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the path specified: 'hfkg/myfile'