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os.removedirs

os — directories

Remove a directory and any parents that become empty.

Syntax

os.removedirs(...)

After removing the leaf it walks up the path removing parents that became empty, until it meets a non-empty one — and silently ignores the error there. So removedirs('a/b/c') may delete 'a' too if it ends up empty. An exception is raised only if the leaf itself could not be removed.

Examples

import os
os.makedirs('a/b/c')
os.removedirs('a/b/c')
print(os.path.exists('a'))   # → False — вслед за c удалены опустевшие b и a

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