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Added content from this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/25172642/119775 which really should have been an edit to the accepted answer in the first place

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edited Feb 23, 2018 at 12:04

Jean-François Corbett

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import shutil shutil.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)

import shutil shutil.rmtree('/folder_name')

Standard Library Reference: shutil.rmtree.

import shutil shutil.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)

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answered Nov 19, 2008 at 20:23

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import shutil shutil.rmtree('/folder_name')

Standard Library Reference: shutil.rmtree.

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