Is their any path file method to delete itself if its a file?

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do Path-file objects have any method to delete itself if its a file? can we use os.remove? method .rmdir() can't be used when correspond to file?

https://stackoverflow.com/q/6996603/1531971 If there is some specific API you are referring to, what have you tried? — , Apr 19 '18 at 16:59

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 19 '18 at 15:21

You can check if the path is file or directory with:

os.path.isfile("asd.txt")
os.path.isdir("asd")

And you can delete it with:

os.remove() will remove a file.

os.rmdir() will remove an empty directory.

shutil.rmtree() will delete a directory and all its contents.

Is their any path file method to delete itself if its a file?

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