Deleting a file?

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon May 16 21:39:37 EDT 2011


"garyr" <garyr at fidalgo.net> writes:

> A file can be deleted by opening it with mode os.O_TEMPORARY and then 
> closing it.

Much simpler: ‘os.remove(path)’.

> How can a file be moved to the Recycle Bin, a la Windows?

That's not deleting it (as you probably know), so you might better
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