Hi Tutors,
I have a web cam that saves files in /var/log/motion and it can get
quite large so I clean it every few days. I came up with this;
#!/usr/bin/python
import commands
import os
from sys import exit
def clean_motion():
folder = '/var/log/motion'
if os.path.exists(folder):
fobj = os.listdir(folder)
fobj.sort()
for file in fobj:
pathname = os.path.join(folder, file)
if os.path.exists(pathname):
print 'removing... ', file
os.remove(pathname)
print folder, 'is clean.'
else:
print folder, 'does not exist!'
if __name__ == "__main__":
if commands.getoutput( "whoami" ) != "root":
exit("\tYou must be root! Try again please.")
clean_motion()
My question is I tried to get it to print out when the directory was
empty like this;
for file in fobj:
pathname = os.path.join(folder, file)
if os.path.exists(pathname):
print 'removing... ', file
os.remove(pathname)
else:
print 'No files to clean'
But if there are no files in the directory it never gets to the else.
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