注:以防有人对我的答案投了反对票，我在这里有一些事情要解释。

Everyone likes short 'n' simple answers. However, sometimes the reality is not so simple. Back to my answer. I know shutil.rmtree() could be used to delete a directory tree. I've used it many times in my own projects. But you must realize that the directory itself will also be deleted by shutil.rmtree(). While this might be acceptable for some, it's not a valid answer for deleting the contents of a folder (without side effects). I'll show you an example of the side effects. Suppose that you have a directory with customized owner and mode bits, where there are a lot of contents. Then you delete it with shutil.rmtree() and rebuild it with os.mkdir(). And you'll get an empty directory with default (inherited) owner and mode bits instead. While you might have the privilege to delete the contents and even the directory, you might not be able to set back the original owner and mode bits on the directory (e.g. you're not a superuser). Finally, be patient and read the code. It's long and ugly (in sight), but proven to be reliable and efficient (in use).

这里有一个冗长而丑陋，但可靠而有效的解决方案。

它解决了一些其他答案没有解决的问题:

它正确地处理符号链接，包括不对符号链接调用shutil.rmtree()(如果它链接到一个目录，它将通过os.path.isdir()测试;甚至os.walk()的结果也包含符号链接目录)。 它可以很好地处理只读文件。

下面是代码(唯一有用的函数是clear_dir()):

import os
import stat
import shutil


# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1889597/deleting-directory-in-python
def _remove_readonly(fn, path_, excinfo):
    # Handle read-only files and directories
    if fn is os.rmdir:
        os.chmod(path_, stat.S_IWRITE)
        os.rmdir(path_)
    elif fn is os.remove:
        os.lchmod(path_, stat.S_IWRITE)
        os.remove(path_)


def force_remove_file_or_symlink(path_):
    try:
        os.remove(path_)
    except OSError:
        os.lchmod(path_, stat.S_IWRITE)
        os.remove(path_)


# Code from shutil.rmtree()
def is_regular_dir(path_):
    try:
        mode = os.lstat(path_).st_mode
    except os.error:
        mode = 0
    return stat.S_ISDIR(mode)


def clear_dir(path_):
    if is_regular_dir(path_):
        # Given path is a directory, clear its content
        for name in os.listdir(path_):
            fullpath = os.path.join(path_, name)
            if is_regular_dir(fullpath):
                shutil.rmtree(fullpath, onerror=_remove_readonly)
            else:
                force_remove_file_or_symlink(fullpath)
    else:
        # Given path is a file or a symlink.
        # Raise an exception here to avoid accidentally clearing the content
        # of a symbolic linked directory.
        raise OSError("Cannot call clear_dir() on a symbolic link")

我知道这是一个老线程，但我从python的官方网站上发现了一些有趣的东西。只是为了分享另一个想法，删除所有的内容在一个目录。因为我在使用shutil.rmtree()时有一些授权问题，我不想删除目录并重新创建它。原始地址是http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.walk。希望这能帮助到一些人。

def emptydir(top):
    if(top == '/' or top == "\\"): return
    else:
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False):
            for name in files:
                os.remove(os.path.join(root, name))
            for name in dirs:
                os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, name))

对此，最好使用os.walk()。

Os.listdir()并不区分文件和目录，你很快就会遇到麻烦，试图解除这些链接。这里有一个使用os.walk()递归删除目录的好例子，并提示了如何使其适应您的环境。

我很惊讶没有人提到做这项工作的很棒的pathlib。

如果你只想删除一个目录中的文件，它可以是一个联机程序

from pathlib import Path

[f.unlink() for f in Path("/path/to/folder").glob("*") if f.is_file()] 

要递归地删除目录，你可以这样写:

from pathlib import Path
from shutil import rmtree

for path in Path("/path/to/folder").glob("**/*"):
    if path.is_file():
        path.unlink()
    elif path.is_dir():
        rmtree(path)

作为一个在线人士:

import os

# Python 2.7
map( os.unlink, (os.path.join( mydir,f) for f in os.listdir(mydir)) )

# Python 3+
list( map( os.unlink, (os.path.join( mydir,f) for f in os.listdir(mydir)) ) )

一个更健壮的文件和目录的解决方案是(2.7):

def rm(f):
    if os.path.isdir(f): return os.rmdir(f)
    if os.path.isfile(f): return os.unlink(f)
    raise TypeError, 'must be either file or directory'

map( rm, (os.path.join( mydir,f) for f in os.listdir(mydir)) )

使用这个函数

import os
import glob

def truncate(path):
    files = glob.glob(path+'/*.*')
    for f in files:
        os.remove(f)

truncate('/my/path')