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Python - Script to find if subfolder exists or not

I'm new to python.

I need to run a script which will delete files/directorys within a subfolder structure only if certain directorys exist.

Parent directory (p:\*fund*\) could be any directory name, for example:
p:\abc\letters\reject\
p:\def\letters\printed\
p:\ghi\letters\

So in above scenario, need to search the root directory (p:\*.*\letters\) for directorys called either reject or printed, then if exist delete the file contents of reject or printed.

I have many task like this one to do, hope that someone can provide me one example then I can tinker with it from then on.

Any help would be apprciated!!

Thanks in advance.

ilalopoulos

Running the python code at the end of this post you will delete all subfolders that their root have names included in DIRS_TO_DEL and are under ROOT_DIR as you asked.

Remove the # in last line from #shutil.rmtree(td) to actually delete the subfolders (else it only prints them to the console)

TEST:

Beggining with a dir structure like this (plus some files):

Directory of C:\area51
New Text Document (2).txt
New Text Document (3).txt
New Text Document.txt

Directory of C:\area51\printed
New Text Document (2).txt
New Text Document.txt

Directory of C:\area51\printed\a
New Text Document.txt

Directory of C:\area51\printed\b

Directory of C:\area51\printed\c

Directory of C:\area51\printed\reject

Directory of C:\area51\test

Directory of C:\area51\test\a

Directory of C:\area51\test\a\reject

Directory of C:\area51\test\b

Directory of C:\area51\test\printed

Directory of C:\area51\test\reject

Directory of C:\area51\test\reject\a

and The end result is this:

Directory of C:\area51

New Text Document (2).txt
New Text Document (3).txt
New Text Document.txt

Directory of C:\area51\test

Directory of C:\area51\test\a

Directory of C:\area51\test\b

#reject.py
import os
import shutil
 
ROOT_DIR = 'c:\\area51'
DIRS_TO_DEL = ['printed', 'reject']
 
todel=[]
 
for p,d,f in os.walk(ROOT_DIR):
    for dtd in DIRS_TO_DEL:
        try:
            d.remove(dtd)
            todel.append(os.path.join(p,dtd))
        except:
            pass
 
for td in todel:
    print td
    #shutil.rmtree(td)

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