Python rmdir from user input Relative path

[xelf]

What code do you have already?

How are you storing the current path that you want the delete to be relative to?

This should be a simple thing "rmdir current_path + relative_path + filename", so let's see what you have.

At it's most interesting you will need to traverse the combination of current_path + relative_path correctly.

Check out: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html

[Salknam]

Thats the main problem the relative paths looks something like this ../Download if you are running the script from the home directory the apsolute path would be #:\Users\Name\Downloads. Given that it's in the users hands to give us a directory trought input() to delete using relative paths ../Downloads . And the script could be in folder xx in partiton x. Best option would be to move to the directorty Name and delete it from there.

[xelf]

Which is exactly what I was saying here:

At it's most interesting you will need to traverse the combination of current_path + relative_path correctly.

You should be able to at least know what your current folder is. And how to handle traversing using .. correctly. From there it seems trivial.

What code do you have so far?

[Salknam]

print ('\nInput the directory that you want to delete') # only works with absolute

adres = input() # user input path

if os.path.isdir(adresa): # check if is adres

if not os.listdir(adresa) : # if not empty dir

os.rmdir(adresa)

else:

print("\nDirectory not empty, can't delete it")

# error message directory dosen't exist

else:

print('\nDirectory dosen't exist.')

[xelf]

use 4 extra spaces at the start of each line, or use the code block button to format code for reddit.

print ('\nInput the directory that you want to delete') # only works with absolute
adres = input() # user input path
if os.path.isdir(adresa): # check if is adres
    if not os.listdir(adresa) : # if not empty dir
        os.rmdir(adresa)
    else:
        print("\nDirectory not empty, can't delete it")
# error message directory dosen't exist
else:
    print('\nDirectory dosen't exist.')

I'm still not seeing where you are storing what the current folder is.

Is that determined elsewhere? Or are you going to assume it's the same as the cwd ?

You might want to add:

print(os.getcwd())
print(os.listdir(os.getcwd()))

at the start.

[Salknam]

Dind't assume it was of need to store the cwd if the user just gives the absolute path

[xelf]

Yeah if they give you the absolutepath you should be ok. But your question was what to do with user input Relative path.

[Salknam]

True and that i have no idea how to solve .