Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be removing all files and subdirectories inside a folder or directory in python using shutil library. All the full source code of the application is given below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to make an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

import os, shutil
folder = 'uploads'
for filename in os.listdir(folder):
    file_path = os.path.join(folder, filename)
    try:
        if os.path.isfile(file_path) or os.path.islink(file_path):
            os.unlink(file_path)
        elif os.path.isdir(file_path):
            shutil.rmtree(file_path)
    except Exception as e:
        print('Failed to delete %s. Reason: %s' % (file_path, e))

So here we are importing the built in modules such as os and shutil and then we are providing the path of the directory which is uploads and then we are deleting all the files and subdirectories inside this uploads folder as shown below

So as you can see we have four files and one directory inside this directory. So now if you execute this python script by typing the below command as shown below

python app.py

So as you can see now the directory is empty and all the files and subdirectories were deleted automatically by using this python script