rm -rf in python

[David Allen]

In article <m3hf1jsryl.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>, "Michael Hudson"
<mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> "David Allen" <s2mdalle at titan.vcu.edu> writes:
> 
>> I need to write the equivalent of "rm -rf" in python, so I wrote this, but
>> I'm having a hard time understanding why it's not working.  
> [schnipp]
>> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> I haven't read your code, but do you know about shutil.rmtree?

I hadn't until now...

Searching yields:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-shutil.html

Question:  I'm not seeing in the documentation for
this whether or not it's good on windows machines.
Is it?  In my original code I had to be careful to
use os.sep rather than just "/" because this code 
will have to run on microsoft OS's.

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David Allen
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