rm -rf in python?

[Thomas Guettler]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:25:37 +0100, Vasisht Tadigotla wrote:


>> Is there a way (short of executing a shell command) that I can do a rm
>> -rf on a directory from python?  It raises an OSError if you try to
>> delete a directory that has contents.  I suppose that I could recurse
>> down through, deleteing as I went, but it seems that there must be an
>> easier way.
> 
> use the  rmtree() function in shutil module, works on *nix. i don't
> think it works on windows though.

AFAIK it works on windows, too.

 thomas
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