Remove all directories using wildcard

Rikishi42 skunkworks at rikishi42.net
Sat Mar 19 19:34:48 EDT 2011


On 2011-03-18, JSkinn3 <skinner_1377 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to python and I am trying to figure out how to remove all sub
> directories from a parent directory using a wildcard.  For example,
> remove all sub directory folders that contain the word "PEMA" from the
> parent directory "C:\Data".
>
> I've trying to use os.walk with glob, but I'm not sure if this is the
> right path to take.

I see you've got 2 suggestions allready.
Wichever you use, please note you need to begin the search from the bottom
of the tree. The call to os.walk should include a False value for the
direction of the walk:   

os.walk("c:/data", False).



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