How can I remove a folder but not the content inside it?

Question

Imagine I have a folder (Folder_1), and inside it there is another folder (Folder_2) where I placed some songs documents etc.

Is there a way I can remove the second folder but keep all the documents and songs in the upper folder (Folder_1)?

Answer 1

Here is how you can use shutil.move() to move files from one path to another:

import os
from glob import glob
from shutil import move

f1 = r'C:\Users\User\Desktop\Folder_1'
f2 = r'C:\Users\User\Desktop\Folder_1\Folder_2'

for f in glob(f2+'//*'):
    move(f, os.path.join(f1, os.path.basename(f)))
    
os.rmdir(f2)

UPDATE:

You can also leave out the glob module, and just use os and shutil:

from os import listdir, rmdir
from shutil import move

f1 = r'C:\Users\Caitlin\Desktop\Folder_1'
f2 = 'Folder_2'

for f in listdir(f"{f1}/{f2}"):
    print(f)
    move(f"{f1}/{f2}/{f}", f"{f1}/{f}")
    
rmdir(f"{f1}/{f2}")

Answer 2

You could try the following:

import os
import shutil

# move everything from folder 2 into folder 1
for i in os.listdir("[Folder_2 path]"):
    shutil.move(os.path.join("[Folder_2 path]", i), "[Folder_1 path]")
# remove the now empty folder
os.rmdir("[Folder_2 path]")