Im Tyring to Delete all Files in E:. with wildcard.
E:\test\*.txt I would ask rather than test the os.walk. In windows.
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The way you would do this is use the glob module:
import glob import os for fl in glob.glob("E:\\test\\*.txt"): #Do what you want with the file os.remove(fl) 
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cwallenpoole
I just ran it on my machine and it worked fine. Are you sure you have permission to remove those files? What happens if you do the following on the command promt: E: <br />cd test <br />del [filename]?
cwallenpoole
Obviously replace "[filename]" with the name of a file.
Merlin
OS= windows, permission: yes "E: <br />cd test <br />del [filename]" on windows??
Aaron
Is there a reason using the glob module is the method preferred over the accepted answer? (Going by votes on answer) What advantages does it have over the other answer?
0xdead
@AaronAlphonsus It let you use the
* instead of if file.endswith(".txt"): in the accepted answer.A slightly verbose writing of another method
import os dir = "E:\\test" files = os.listdir(dir) for file in files: if file.endswith(".txt"): os.remove(os.path.join(dir,file)) Or
import os [os.remove(os.path.join("E:\\test",f)) for f in os.listdir("E:\\test") if f.endswith(".txt")] 
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DevLounge
I'd rather write: map(os.remove, [os.path.join("E:\\test",f)) for f in os.listdir("E:\\test") if f.endswith(".txt")])
Ash
beautiful solution, woks amazingly and is cross-platform.
Ganesh Tata
@AnthonyPerot Why is the use of
map better than the list comprehension mentioned in the answer?You could use popen for this as well if you want to do it in fewer lines
from subprocess import Popen proc = Popen("del E:\test\*.txt",shell=False) 
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Alastair McCormack
Best to use Python libraries as it makes your code cross-platform, is less brittle and gives rich exceptions. If brevity is important, you achieve the same in one line using Python native libs with:
#import glob,os ; [os.remove(x) for x in glob.glob("E:\test\*.txt")]If you want to delete file with more than one extension then define those extensions in tuple like below
import os def purge(dir): files = os.listdir(dir) ext = ('.txt', '.xml', '.json') for file in files: if file.endswith(ext): print("File -> " + os.path.join(dir,file)) os.remove(os.path.join(dir,file)) 