remove files from folder older than X days

[kerzol81]

Hi,

I made this attempt, it works fine, but I'm not satisfied with it. Couldn't it be done easier in a more pythonic way?
Is there a method for this job in a module? I havent figured it out how to remove the directories as well.

Here is my code:

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import os import time     class FolderCleaner:     """     Removes files from older that gives days     windows env: 'c:\\exports\\subfolder\\'     """     path = ''     days = 0       def __init__(self, path, days):         if not os.path.exists(path):             raise TypeError("folder does not exist")         self.path = path         if days < 0 or isinstance(days, bool) or not isinstance(days, int):             raise ValueError("days must be positive integer")         self.days = days         self.clean()       def clean(self):         time_in_secs = time.time() - (self.days * 24 * 60 * 60)         for root, dirs, files in os.walk(self.path, topdown=False):             for file in files:                 full_path = os.path.join(root, file)                 stat = os.stat(full_path)                 if stat.st_mtime <= time_in_secs:                     os.remove(full_path)

[Larz60+]

There was a similar thread in the past few days (not to remove, but logic is very similar),
see this thread: https://python-forum.io/Thread-PyQt-to-d...-two-dates

[snippsat]

Can also look at this recent Thread.
As a advice use datetime or pendulum for this as is easier than using time.
So in link over is using pathlib if make some changes it could look like this.
Deleting files older than 60 days,if folders is empty after deleting files,delete these folders.

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from pathlib import Path from datetime import date, timedelta   def walk_dir(starting_dir):     past_time = date.today() - timedelta(days=60)     for path in Path(starting_dir).iterdir():         timestamp = date.fromtimestamp(path.stat().st_mtime)         if path.is_file() and past_time > timestamp:             print(f'Delete file --> {path}')             #path.unlink() # Delete files         if path.is_dir():             walk_dir(path)         try:             #path.rmdir() # Delete empty folders             pass         except (FileNotFoundError, WindowsError):             pass   if __name__ == '__main__':     start_path = r'E:\div_code\sound_folder'     walk_dir(start_path)

pathlib has different approach to work with paths and file-system.
It has a lot functionality that spread in os,glob, and shutil,but not all like eg shutil.rmtree(path)
Can mix in other stuff to pathlib if that's needed.