How to check to see if a folder contains files using python 3

Question

I\'ve searched everywhere for this answer but can\'t find it.

I\'m trying to come up with a script that will search for a particular subfolder then check if it conta

Answer 1

If you can delete the directory, you can use this:

my_path = os.path.abspath("something")               
try:
    os.rmdir(my_path)
    is_empty = True
    # Do you need to keep the directory? Recreate it!
    # os.makedirs(my_path, exist_ok=True)
except OSError:
    is_empty = False

if is_empty:
    pass

The os.rmdir only removes a directory if it is empty, otherwise it throws the OSError exception.

You can find a discussion about this on:

1. https://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/157394-how-determine-if-folder-empty

For example, deleting an empty directory is fine when you are planing to do a git clone, but not if you are checking beforehand whether the directory is empty, so your program does not throw an empty directory error.