python script for selecting and deleting files

Question

I accidently made copies of a lot of files on my computer. But one thing I noticed was that they all ended with the suffix ".copy", so in order to delete them I would like to write a python script to select these files and then deleting them. How do i go about doing that?

Answer 1

import os

dir = 'C:\\Path\\To\\Directory' # if using Windows
#dir = '/path/to/directory'  # if using Linux/OS X

files = [os.path.join(dir, f) for dir, subdir, files in os.walk(dir) for f in files if f.endswith('.copy')]

for f in files:
    print f
    # os.remove.path(f)

This will iterate through all files and folders starting at the root dir

Remove the hash tag # in front of os.remove.path after the first run once you've verified the correct files are being removed.

Answer 2

import os
for file_name in os.listdir("path/to/the/folder_with_files"):
    if file_name.endswith('.copy'):
        os. delete(file_name)

Hopes that work.