Question

I am getting an ‘access is denied’ error when I attempt to delete a folder that is not empty. I used the following command in my attempt: os.remove('/folder_name').

What is the most effective way of removing/deleting a folder/directory that is not empty?

Answer 1

import shutil  shutil.rmtree('/folder_name') 

Standard Library Reference: shutil.rmtree.

By design, rmtree fails on folder trees containing read-only files. If you want the folder to be deleted regardless of whether it contains read-only files, then use

shutil.rmtree('/folder_name', ignore_errors=True)