How to search for a folder name in python and delete it

Question

I have a directory of folders and subfolders that I need to search through to find a certain folder name, \"old data\", so that I can delete the files within \"old data\" and de

Answer 1

See if the below code works for your scenario:

import os
import shutil

for root, subdirs, files in os.walk('C:/directory'):
    for d in subdirs:
        if d == "old data":
            shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(root, d))

shutil.rmtree will delete the entire "old data" directory