This gist is a codebase to delete files & directories using python.

Delete-Files-Directories.py

import shutil
import os

def delete_temp_file(locations):
	for location in locations:		
		try:
			# get list of all files and directories
			file_dir = os.listdir(location) 
			
			only_files = []
			only_dir = []
			
			for i in file_dir:
				# generate full path
				full_path = os.path.join(location, i)
                
                # checks if the given path is of file or not
				if os.path.isfile(full_path):
					only_files.append(full_path)

				# checks if the given path is of directory or not
				if os.path.isdir(full_path):
					only_dir.append(full_path)
		except Exception as e:
			print(e)

		# loop through the list that contains only files 
		for i in only_files:
			try:
				# os.chmod(i, 0o777)
				os.remove(i) # removes the files
			except Exception as e:
				print(getattr(e, 'message', repr(e)))

		# loop through the list that contains only directories 
		for i in only_dir:
			try:
				# os.chmod(i, 0o777)
				shutil.rmtree(i, ignore_errors = False) # removes the the directory and all the sub-files and sub-directory it has
			except Exception as e:
				print(e)


locations = ['C:\\Users\\Sahil\\AppData\\Local\\Temp', 'C:\\Windows\\Temp','C:\\Windows\\Prefetch']

# call function
delete_temp_file(locations)