deleting directory tree

[Tom Harris]

Greetings,

Can someone explain what os.removedirs() does? I needed a function to remove
a directory and all its files and subdirectories, and ended up writing one.
It seems that there should be such a function in os, but I drew a blank.

Tom Harris, Software Engineer
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