On Unix OS(OSX, Linux, etc) hidden files start with a '.' so we can filter them out using a simple startswith check. On windows, we need to check file attributes and then determine whether the file/folder is hidden or not.
Example
For example, you can use the following code to delete all hidden files:
import os if os.name == 'nt': import win32api, win32con def file_is_hidden(p): if os.name== 'nt': attribute = win32api.GetFileAttributes(p) return attribute & (win32con.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN | win32con.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM) else: return p.startswith('.') #linux-osx [os.remove(f) for f in os.listdir('.') if file_is_hidden(f)]