Cleans the files left over from LaTeX compulation

latexclean.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-

from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

from os import listdir, remove
from sys import argv

fileEndings = {'aux',
              'fdb_latexmk',
              'idx',
              'ilg',
              'ind',
              'log',
              'out',
              'toc',
              'fls',
              'synctex.gz',
              'texlog',
              'bbl',
              'blg',
              'brf',
              'lof',
              'lol',
              'lot',
              'gz',
              'nav',
              'snm',
              'tdo',
              'thm',
              'run.xml'}


def cleanFolder(path):
    files = listdir(path)
    for f in files:
        if f.split('.')[-1] in fileEndings:
            try:
                remove(f)
            except OSError:
                print('Could not remove file ' + f)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(argv) > 1:
        cleanFolder(argv[1])
    else:
        cleanFolder('.')