Saving a file to a specific location

[buran]

i dont understand theres nothing else to delete it only that code.

It's a design pattern. Maybe it's not relevant for this particular case, but you should be aware of potential problems and what is accepted solution. Think of multiple users running your code, your more advanced code running multi-thread or multi-process, etc.

what is the problem with os.remove?

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Also, note that opening file for writing (in 'w' mode) will overwrite file if it exists. No need to remove it before that.

[finndude]

basically all the files will be in the user info folder. but the program is saved in a different file if I use os remove on its own it's gonna try and delete a file in the folder the code is, giving an error because its not there.

so I want it to remove a file from the user info folder.
with the path exist. i want it to check if the file exists in the user info folder

[buran]

you need to pass the full path to file you want to delete

import os

user = 'delete-this_user'
fname = f'{user}.txt'
folder = 'E:/Work/School/Computer Science/Python/Code/User Info/'
try:
    os.remove(os.path.join(folder, fname))
except FileNotFoundError:
    # file does not exists
    pass

Again, note that if you are going to write again, it will be overwritten anyway

[finndude]

alright is there a way so that it looks in the folder user info and then delete the file that the user inputted.

i have a system in place using path.exist to see if its there. if it's not there it prints that it's not

whats the simple way to look in a folder and delete the chosen file

also how do I use path.exists to look in a chosen folder aswell