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Python 3 send2trash Module Script to Delete Files & Send them to Trash & RecycleBin Automatically
Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here:
https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-send2trash-module-script-to-delete-files-send-them-to-trash-recyclebin-automatically/
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video i will show you how to
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delete uh files to your recycle bin or
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trash automatically inside python so
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there is a package here which works
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crossplatform so it doesn't depend upon
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which operating system you are
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running so the name of the module is
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send to trash from the name itself it
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will automatically send all your files
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to trash or recycle bin in windows so
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you can see send file to trash natively
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under mac apple windows or linux
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so it will natively support all the
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operating system if you're running on
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linux or mac also then also it will send
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files to your recycle or trash bin so
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i'm running on windows here you will see
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i have the script so i'm just checking
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for all the csv
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files so in my root directory you will
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see a bunch of csv files are present so
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what i will do i will run this
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script so it will detect and all send
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all the csv files to my recycle bin so
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if i check the recycle bin you will see
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the csv files are now there
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so in this easy way you can see so now
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let me show you the example code here
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for so after installing it just simply
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make a simple python file and write
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first of all you just need to import the
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operating system module and also this
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module which is send to trash and then
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we
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simply loop
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through in the
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directory so operating system walk
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function is there so you'll be taking
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the root directory and uh right here you
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will specify which files you want to
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delete so right inside this loop we will
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simply have this condition that if the
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file ends with so here you can put the
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any extension right here let's suppose i
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am targeting csv
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files
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so it will
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simply delete all these files so
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operating system path
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join then simply delete print out this
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simple message that
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deleted and now to send this file to
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trash we call this function send to
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trash it contains this function send to
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trash
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and that's all that's all that we need
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to do inside this it contains this
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inside this module
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send to trash so if you execute
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this so line number nine you will see
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indentation
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line number
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10 there is some kind of indentation
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error let me just paste
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it let me target now uh instead of jpg
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file so now it will delete all the
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images you will see
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that it is deleting all these images and
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if you check your recycle bin you will
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see
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it is transferring the files to your
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recycle bin natively so you can use this
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module inside python simply install it
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