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+Finding empty directories in Python
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+
+:date: 2013-05-26 16:00
+:tags: Python
+:slug: finding-empty-directories-in-python
+:author: Brian Neal
+
+Late one night I needed to write some Python code to recursively find empty
+directories. Searching online produced some unsatisfactory solutions. Here is
+a simple solution that leverages `os.walk`_.
+
+.. sourcecode:: python
+
+   import os
+
+   empty_dirs = []
+   for root, dirs, files in os.walk(starting_path):
+      if not len(dirs) and not len(files):
+          empty_dirs.append(root)
+
+If you then wish to delete these empty directories:
+
+.. sourcecode:: python
+
+   for path in empty_dirs:
+       os.removedirs(path)
+
+.. _os.walk: http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.walk