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if file exists delete python

import os
filePath = '/home/somedir/Documents/python/logs'

if os.path.exists(filePath):
    os.remove(filePath)
else:
    print("Can not delete the file as it doesn't exists")
Posted by: Guest on July-19-2020
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python delete file

import os
import shutil

if os.path.exists("demofile.txt"):
  os.remove("demofile.txt") # one file at a time

os.rmdir("test_directory") # removes empty directory
shutil.rmtree("test_directory") # removes not empty directory and its content
Posted by: Guest on August-19-2020

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