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Lindsay
10 Sep 2016
1import shutil
2
3shutil.rmtree('/folder_name')
Alberto
03 May 2017
1import os
2import glob
3
4files = glob.glob('/YOUR/PATH/*')
5for f in files:
6    os.remove(f)
7
Allison
27 Jun 2019
1import os, shutil
2folder = '/path/to/folder'
3for filename in os.listdir(folder):
4    file_path = os.path.join(folder, filename)
5    try:
6        if os.path.isfile(file_path) or os.path.islink(file_path):
7            os.unlink(file_path)
8        elif os.path.isdir(file_path):
9            shutil.rmtree(file_path)
10    except Exception as e:
11        print('Failed to delete %s. Reason: %s' % (file_path, e))
12
Guadalupe
18 Apr 2018
1import shutil
2
3dir_path = '/tmp/img'
4
5try:
6    shutil.rmtree(dir_path)
7except OSError as e:
8    print("Error: %s : %s" % (dir_path, e.strerror))
9
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