Deleting files in folder with python

Question

I have one folder with one geodatabase and two other files (txt). I used zip and zipped them. So now in this folder i have gdb, txt,txt, and new zip file. Now I need to delete those files that were zipped, so that will be only zip file in the folder. I wrote the following code:

def remove_files():
 for l in os.listdir(DestPath):
 if l.find('zipped.zip') > -1:
 pass
 else:
 print ('Deleting ' + l)
 os.remove(l)

But got:

Error Info: 
[Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'geogeo.gdb'

Can anyone help me?

• ThiefMaster: Instead of that l.find('zipped.zip') > -1 you can simply use 'zipped.zip' in l

Answer 1

os.listdir only returns filenames, not complete paths. os.remove uses the current working directory if only a filename is given. If the current working directory is different than DestPath, then you need to supply the full path:

os.remove(os.path.join(DestPath,l))

• unutbu: @TimPietzcker: True; it will remove anything without zipped.zip anywhere in its filename.
• Tim Pietzcker: Ah, I thought your solution was supposed to replace the entire code snippet by Z77, not just the os.remove() line. My bad.
• Z77: Now I got another error: Error Info: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'C:/path\\geogeo.gdb'
• Z77: There is a problem because gdb is considered is subfolder? Because I can delete all other files in main folder, just not gdb.
• Z77: def remove_files(): for l in os.listdir(DestPath): if 'zipped.zip' in l: pass elif '.gdb.' in l: rmtree(os.path.join(DestPath,l)) else: print ('Deleting ' + l) os.remove(os.path.join(DestPath,l)) I tried this delete also file.gdb as a folder..But still have problem with [error 5] Acesss is denied. I really do not know what to do :(((