Deleting Directories
Laura McCord
Laura.McCord at doucet-austin.com
Fri May 21 11:27:06 EDT 2004
Yes, I just found out about shutil() which was the key element that I
needed. I just didn't see it in the library reference.
Thanks,
Laura
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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:22 AM
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Subject: Re: Deleting Directories
Laura McCord wrote:
> This is probably a very basic question but I started learning python.
> I am almost done writing my delete directory script but I am at a
> stand still right now. I want to delete folders in my
> "/var/www/html/da" directory that are over 1 day old.
>
> But, when I find the folder a simple rmdir() command does not work
> because the directory is not empty. What else do I need to do to
> delete a directory that contains content?
Assuming you already figured out how to check the directories'
timestamps, shutil.rmtree() will do what you want.
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