Question : How to delete similar files with python?

I would like to delete similar files quietly with some extension under windows with python.

What I have up to now is this:

import os

os.system('del *.log')

But since this is shel command executed it always throw some stupid output if no files with this extension were found. How to delete files quietly from a python module?

Answer : How to delete similar files with python?

Have a look at http://docs.python.org/library/glob.html#glob.glob and http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.remove. See the snippet below. Uncomment the last two lines only when you are sure what is going to happen (dangerous operation).

                       
             import glob
import os
 
path = '.' # working directory
mask = os.path.join(path, '*.log')
print mask
 
# Just to see what it is about...
print glob.glob(mask)
 
# Process the globbed files.
for fname in glob.glob(mask):
    print fname
    ##if os.path.isfile(fname):
    ##    os.remove(fname)

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