我发现了一个非常简单的方法来删除任何文件夹(甚至不是空的)或文件在WINDOWS操作系统。

os.system('powershell.exe  rmdir -r D:\workspace\Branches\*%s* -Force' %CANDIDATE_BRANCH)

删除一个文件夹，即使它可能不存在(避免Charles Chow回答中的竞态条件)，但当其他事情出错时仍然有错误(例如权限问题，磁盘读取错误，文件不是目录)

对于Python 3.x:

import shutil

def ignore_absent_file(func, path, exc_inf):
    except_instance = exc_inf[1]
    if isinstance(except_instance, FileNotFoundError):
        return
    raise except_instance

shutil.rmtree(dir_to_delete, onerror=ignore_absent_file)

Python 2.7的代码几乎是一样的:

import shutil
import errno

def ignore_absent_file(func, path, exc_inf):
    except_instance = exc_inf[1]
    if isinstance(except_instance, OSError) and \
        except_instance.errno == errno.ENOENT:
        return
    raise except_instance

shutil.rmtree(dir_to_delete, onerror=ignore_absent_file)

你可以使用os。简单的系统命令:

import os
os.system("rm -rf dirname")

显然，它实际上调用系统终端来完成这项任务。

基于递归的纯pathlib解决方案:

from pathlib import Path

def remove_path(path: Path):
    if path.is_file() or path.is_symlink():
        path.unlink()
        return
    for p in path.iterdir():
        remove_path(p)
    path.rmdir()

支持Windows和符号链接

import shutil
shutil.rmtree(dest, ignore_errors=True)

来自os.walk()的python文档:

# Delete everything reachable from the directory named in 'top',
# assuming there are no symbolic links.
# CAUTION:  This is dangerous!  For example, if top == '/', it
# could delete all your disk files.
import os
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False):
    for name in files:
        os.remove(os.path.join(root, name))
    for name in dirs:
        os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, name))