Deleting folders in python recursively

Question

I\'m having a problem with deleting empty directories. Here is my code:

for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(dir_to_search):
    //other codes

    try         


        

Answer 1

For Linux users, you can simply run the shell command in a pythonic way

import os
os.system("rm -r /home/user/folder_name")

where rm stands for remove and -r for recursively