How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty?
import shutilshutil.rmtree('/folder_name')Standard Library Reference: shutil.rmtree.
By design, rmtree fails on folder trees containing read-only files. If you want the folder to be deleted regardless of whether it contains read-only files, then use
shutil.rmtree('/folder_name', ignore_errors=True)
From the python docs on os.walk():
# Delete everything reachable from the directory named in 'top',# assuming there are no symbolic links.# CAUTION: This is dangerous! For example, if top == '/', it# could delete all your disk files.import osfor root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False): for name in files: os.remove(os.path.join(root, name)) for name in dirs: os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, name))