Deleting empty folders.

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> keithk <member21858 at dbforums.com> (K) wrote:

K> Hi All,

K> I want to write a short script that checks whether a set of windows
K> folders is empty and then if they are , delete them, I am unable to find
K> a module in python which checks whether a folder is empty, could someone
K> please point me in the right direction,

Use os.listdir() and check if you get an empty list.
By the way, if you use os.rmdir(), it will only delete the directory if it
is empty, otherwise it raises an exception.
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