I want to delete all files with the extension .bak
in a directory. How can I do that in Python?
Via os.listdir
and os.remove
:
import os
filelist = [ f for f in os.listdir(mydir) if f.endswith(".bak") ]
for f in filelist:
os.remove(os.path.join(mydir, f))
Using only a single loop:
for f in os.listdir(mydir):
if not f.endswith(".bak"):
continue
os.remove(os.path.join(mydir, f))
Or via glob.glob
:
import glob, os, os.path
filelist = glob.glob(os.path.join(mydir, "*.bak"))
for f in filelist:
os.remove(f)
Be sure to be in the correct directory, eventually using os.chdir
.