os.removedirs - How to force this delete?
Marc Christiansen
usenet at solar-empire.de
Thu Sep 27 11:33:03 EDT 2007
cstewart913 at gmail.com wrote:
> I've been searching to find a way to force this delete to work even if
> the directory isn't empty. I've had no luck thus far. Anyone know
> what that would be?
Answering your immediate question: you can't force os.removedirs to
delete non-empty dirs.
But shutil.rmtree(path, ignore_errors=True) does what you want.
HTH, Marc
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