makeclean.py

A clean-up utility in python that removes files and folders. It is meant as a portable replacement for rm -r in clean: targets of makefiles, but can be used for other similar situations.

It accepts an arbitrary number of path-objects and removes them if they exist, while ignoring non-existent ones.

Install

Currently, the package is not release, so you have to install it from the repo.

Install via pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/Cube707/python-makeclean

Usage

You can use it directly from the terminal:

makeclean foo.txt bar/

But it gets really helpful if you use it as the clean: target of a makefile, making it fully portable:

TRASH = foo.txt bar/

clean:
    makeclean $(TRASH)

Use makeclean --help for more details.