Remove all files in a directory
os.remove() does not work on a directory, and os.rmdir() will only work on an empty directory. And Python won't automatically expand "/home/me/test/*" like some shells do.
You can use shutil.rmtree() on the directory to do this, however.
import shutilshutil.rmtree('/home/me/test') be careful as it removes the files and the sub-directories as well.
os.remove doesn't resolve unix-style patterns. If you are on a unix-like system you can:
os.system('rm '+test)Else you can:
import glob, ostest = '/path/*'r = glob.glob(test)for i in r: os.remove(i)
Bit of a hack but if you would like to keep the directory, the following can be used.
import osimport shutilshutil.rmtree('/home/me/test') os.mkdir('/home/me/test')