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date Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:45:03 -0600
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1 Finding empty directories in Python
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4 :date: 2013-05-26 16:00
5 :tags: Python
6 :slug: finding-empty-directories-in-python
7 :author: Brian Neal
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9 Late one night I needed to write some Python code to recursively find empty
10 directories. Searching online produced some unsatisfactory solutions. Here is
11 a simple solution that leverages `os.walk`_.
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13 .. sourcecode:: python
14
15 import os
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17 empty_dirs = []
18 for root, dirs, files in os.walk(starting_path):
19 if not len(dirs) and not len(files):
20 empty_dirs.append(root)
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22 If you then wish to delete these empty directories:
23
24 .. sourcecode:: python
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26 for path in empty_dirs:
27 os.removedirs(path)
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29 .. _os.walk: http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.walk