google colab How to delete everything in a FTP folder using Python?

[Mr.Stork]

So I use colab to copy files from my FTP server to my drive using this code (i've 

import os
os.chdir("/content/drive/Shareddrives/HAHSCollage/")
!wget -c -m --ftp-user="username" --ftp-password="password" "ftp://cloudstorage.com/folder/subfolder/Finished/*"

But I have to manually delete all files and folders from the "Finished" folder everytime after I'm done copying.

So, I just need a code that deletes anything in the "Finished" folder, so I'll run it with the same above command.

 

Thanks.

[igormp]

17 minutes ago, Mr.Stork said:

So I use colab to copy files from my FTP server to my drive using this code (i've 

import os
os.chdir("/content/drive/Shareddrives/HAHSCollage/")
!wget -c -m --ftp-user="username" --ftp-password="password" "ftp://cloudstorage.com/folder/subfolder/Finished/*"

But I have to manually delete all files and folders from the "Finished" folder everytime after I'm done copying.

So, I just need a code that deletes anything in the "Finished" folder, so I'll run it with the same above command.

 

Thanks.

You can use FTPLib and its delete method.

[Mr.Stork]

34 minutes ago, igormp said:

You can use FTPLib and its delete method.

I don't want to delete a specific file as you linked, I want to delete anything and all files or folders in the "Finished" folder recursively. I don't want to have to know all the filenames, what I want to do is equavalent to "Ctrl+A" then pressing "Delete".

[C2dan88]

You first need to get a directory listing of the folder you want to delete use FTP.mlsd() method.

Then loop through the list  of files, pass the filename to  FTP.delete() method if it is a file or if it is a directory call FTP.rmd() method

 

Take a look at this stackoverflow topic for solutions

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10042838/delete-all-files-and-folders-after-connecting-to-ftp

[Mr.Stork]

14 hours ago, C2dan88 said:

You first need to get a directory listing of the folder you want to delete use FTP.mlsd() method.

Then loop through the list of files, pass the filename to FTP.delete() method if it is a file or if it is a directory call FTP.rmd() method

 

Take a look at this stackoverflow topic for solutions

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10042838/delete-all-files-and-folders-after-connecting-to-ftp

Thanks I found the 2nd answer to be useful, although it deletes the entire folder. So, I just used "ftp.mkd" command to make it again.