Remove diretory with files in it

[Paul Rubin]

samuel Parkay <sap at eibnet.com> writes:
> I can;'t  seem to make the os.rmdir()path) command to work the way I
> need it .  I would like it to be like" rm -rf" in unix .  It keeps
> throwing an exception about not being empty.  Is there a way to rmove
> a directory and it's contents in python?

You have to remove all the contents before you can rmdir a directory.
Using os.system("rm -rf directory") is probably the simplest.