Clean up script for all temporary binaries and build artifacts, that might pile up within a python project and possibly disturb a clean execution.

buildclean.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from shutil import rmtree
from sys import argv
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Iterable


DELETE_DIRS: set[str] = {
    "build",
    "dist",
    "*.egg-info",
    "**/__pycache__",
    ".hypothesis",
    ".pytest_cache",
    ".mypy_cache",
    ".cache",
    ".eggs"
}

DEFAULT_DIRS: list[str] = ["."]


def delete_path(path: Path, dry=False):
    if path.is_dir():
        print("Deleting", path)
        if not dry:
            rmtree(path)

    elif path.is_file():
        print("Deleting", path)
        if not dry:
            path.unlink(missing_ok=True)


def get_artifacts(path: Path) -> Iterable[Path]:
    for pattern in DELETE_DIRS:
        for artifact in path.glob(pattern):
            yield artifact


def main(dry=False):
    paths = argv[1:] or DEFAULT_DIRS
    for path in paths:
        for fpath in get_artifacts(Path(path)):
            delete_path(fpath, dry=dry)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()