["python","directory"]
Deleting folders in python recursively

I'm having a problem with deleting empty directories. Here is my code: for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(dir_to_search): # other codes try: os.rmdir(dirpath) except OSError as ex: print(ex) The argument dir_to_search is where I'm passing the directory where the work needs to be done. That directory looks like this: test/20/... test/22/... test/25/... test/26/... Note that all the above folders are empty. When I run this script the folders 20,25 alone gets deleted! But the folders 25 and 26 aren't deleted, even though they are empty folders. Edit: The exception that I'm getting are: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/python-user/shell-scripts/s3logs/test' [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/python-user/shell-scripts/s3logs/test/2012' [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/python-user/shell-scripts/s3logs/test/2012/10' [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/python-user/shell-scripts/s3logs/test/2012/10/29' [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/python-user/shell-scripts/s3logs/test/2012/10/29/tmp' [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/python-user/shell-scripts/s3logs/test/2012/10/28' [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/python-user/shell-scripts/s3logs/test/2012/10/28/tmp' [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/python-user/shell-scripts/s3logs/test/2012/10/26' [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/python-user/shell-scripts/s3logs/test/2012/10/25' [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/python-user/shell-scripts/s3logs/test/2012/10/27' [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/python-user/shell-scripts/s3logs/test/2012/10/27/tmp' Where am I making a mistake?
Try shutil.rmtree to delete files and directories: import shutil shutil.rmtree('/path/to/your/dir/')