Question

How do I delete the directory which contains the executed python file?

Answer 1

No program can delete itself or the folder it’s in while it’s still running. The OS will prevent this from happening, independently of whether you use Python or C or any other language.

You have two options:

• Have your Python script put the log file into a subdirectory, and delete that at the end of your script’s run (but of course that fails when the user Ctrl-Cs out of your script.
• Run another script after the first one (in a different directory) that removes the directory of the first script. Of course, again, you’re not safe against user intervention. And of course, you’ll have the second script left over at the end…

Why does your program store passwords on the hard drive of the system it runs on anyway?