This doesn't seem to work because it's a wildcard filename. What is the proper way to delete files using wildcards?
You could try glob[1] and then iterate over collected list (it also gives you a chance to handle errors like unreadable/not owned by you files).
[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/glob.html -- Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski *|* http://fuse.pl
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