How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty with Python?

Question

I am getting an 'access is denied' error when I attempt to delete a folder that is not empty. I used the following command in my attempt: `os.remove("/folder_name")`. What is the most effective way of removing/deleting a folder/directory that is not empty?

Answer 1

To remove a non-empty directory you may use the rmtree() method from the shutil library. For example,

import shutil

target_directory = "/path/to/directory"

shutil.rmtree(target_directory)