Remove diretory with files in it

[samuel Parkay]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 23:38:56 -0400 (EDT), Vasisht Tadigotla
<vasisht at eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:

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>or you can use the rmtree() function in shutil module. this removes the
>directory even there are files present in it.
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>On 24 Aug 2002, Paul Rubin wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> You have to remove all the contents before you can rmdir a directory.
>> Using os.system("rm -rf directory") is probably the simplest.
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Thank you just what I needed