This recipe will show you how you can remove files and directories in MicroPython. There are separate functions for deleting a file and deleting a directory. We will show you how to call these different functions for each type of path. Then, we will show you how you can create a generic function that can automatically remove either type of path.
There are many situations in the projects that you create where you need to resort to deleting files. You might create a project that logs data to a file. Log rotation is a mechanism that lets you create new log files periodically and remove old ones automatically. You will need functions that delete files in order to implement log rotation. The issue of removing files to conserve space becomes even more important in many MicroPython-embedded projects because you are often dealing with limited storage capacity on these...