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Unable to delete files from folder using os.remove() in python -
"I am dealing with a file directory in python, where I want to delete files containing a specific string, ultimately using os.remove(), but I just cannot get it to work. I will elaborate further here by showing the code I am using:
directory = 'source_folder'
for color in colors:
for size in sizes:
for speed in speeds:
source = os.listdir(os.path.join(directory, color, size, speed))
for file in source:
if ""p_1"" in file:
print(file)
And this prints out all the files in the directory that contain the string excerpt ""p_1"" in the file name, which is what I would expect. Each ""for"" nesting represents navigating to another folder level in my directory hierarchy.
What I want to do is delete every file that does NOT contain ""p_1"" in the file name. And so I tried:
directory = 'source_folder'
for color in colors:
for size in sizes:
for speed in speeds:
source = os.listdir(os.path.join(directory, color, size, speed))
for file in source:
if ""p_1"" not in file:
os.remove(file)
but this returns:
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'Name_of_one_of_the_files_I_want_to_delete'
I don't see where my logic is wrong here, since I can print the files I want to delete, but for some reason I can't delete them. How can I fix my code to delete those files that contain the string excerpt ""p_1"" in the file name?
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