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Tinotenda Tariro Mhishi
9,877 PointsMake a function named delete_by_date. PYTHON FOR FILE SYSTEMS
totall lost. please help
import os
def delete_by_date(path):
path = path+'/backups'
os.remove(path)
1 Answer
Stephen Cole
Courses Plus Student 15,809 PointsLook at the instructions again. There's more to the path than the date string. The date is inside the filename itself.
import os
def delete_by_date(date_string):
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('backups'):
for single_file in files:
if date_string in single_file:
os.remove(os.path.join(root, single_file))
Using the tools we've been give "so far," I've opted to walk the directory as we did in the earlier module.
Using os.scandir for the second half of the challenge looks like this:
def delete_by_user(user_string):
files = []
for each_file in os.scandir('backups'):
if each_file.is_file():
files.append(each_file.path)
for single_file in files:
if user_string in single_file:
os.remove(single_file)
justlevy
6,325 Pointsjustlevy
6,325 PointsStephen Cole - great code but this didn't work for me in the Treehouse Challenge. I can confirm it worked on my local Windows machine running Visual Studio Code.
Sidenote - I learned that
os.scandirisn't iterable, correct? That's why we created an empty list,files, andappendeach file to that list?