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Start your free trialK.D. Harris
11,223 PointsStuck on the purging objective
in case it helps, I get the following error:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '2003-12-07-L0JNT.txt'
import os
def delete_by_date(string):
string = '-'.join(string.split('-')[:-1])
for each_file in os.listdir("backups"):
if string in each_file:
os.remove(each_file)
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,427 PointsYou are very close! The input string does not need to be modified. The error is in the argument to os.remove
. Remember to prefix the each_file
with the "backups" using os.path.join
Christopher Bailey
14,880 PointsChristopher Bailey
14,880 Pointsi guess we are to assume we are not working in the 'backups dir'