How to delete a file using Python code example

There are two modules os and pathlib you can make use of to delete a file using Python code, let us see some examples,

import os

file = "/Users/code2care/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/sample.txt"

if os.path.exists(file):
    os.remove(file)
    print("File: " + file + " deleted ...")
else:
    print("File not found: " + file + " ...")

import pathlib

fileStr = "/Users/code2care/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/sample.txt"
file = pathlib.Path(fileStr)

if file.exists():
    file.unlink()
    print("File: " + fileStr + " deleted ...")
else:
    print("File not found: " + fileStr + " ...")

Note if you do not handle the code to look if the file exists or not you will get a FileNotFoundError,

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/c2c/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/main.py", line 5, in 
    file.unlink()
  File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/pathlib.py", line 1344, in unlink
    self._accessor.unlink(self)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/c2c/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/sample.txt'