Is there a python file eraser?

Asked By benjamin 460 points N/A Posted on - 11/16/2012

Hello fellows,

Is there a python file eraser? My friend is using python programming language for building an important program or system; she asks me if I have any idea about the python file eraser. I want to help my friend to research about this. Share with me your answers and ideas.

Regards,

Benjamin.

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Answered By Samuel Charsa 0 points N/A #92380

Is there a python file eraser?

Hello Benjamin,

Your question is really unclear. Do you mean a python program that erases files or a program that erases python files? Whatever the case may be, this link will shed more light on the issue:

https://www.bleachbit.org/forum/question-about-shredding-files-using-python

Here's a python file eraser software:

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download/python-file-eraser-5476948.html

I hope your friend find this information.

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Answered By Allen Kenneth 20 points N/A #92381

Is there a python file eraser?

Hello Benjamin,

Your question is somewhat unclear. But assuming that you were trying to find some method to delete files using Python, here are a couple of methods you can follow.

You can do use the remove () function from the module 'OS'

 

import os                           

os.remove('Path/To/File.ext')

Or try this code below.

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import os

 

def nukedir(dir):

    if dir[-1] == os.sep: dir = dir[:-1]

    files = os.listdir(dir)

    for file in files:

        if file == '.' or file == '..': continue

        path = dir + os.sep + file

        if os.path.isdir(path):

            nukedir(path)

        else:

            os.unlink(path)

    os.rmdir(dir)

 

nukedir("/home/mb/test");

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Hope this will fix it.

 

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