[Tutor] removedirs ?

[Ertl, John]

Jason,

I could...That is the exact feature I am trying to replicate, but I would
just like to do it in Python if I can (in a simple way).  I am writing this
code in Python to avoid some funny scripting that I would need to do. To go
back to combing shell and Python again would be a bit deflating...but the
straight forward path might be the best.

Thanks,

John Ertl 


-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Child [mailto:jasonchild at cnsp.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:36
Cc: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] removedirs ?

Ertl, John wrote:

>I am trying to remove a directory that has other directories and files in
>it.  I thought removedirs was supposed to do a recursive remove of files
and
>directories.
>
>When I try it I get
>
> 
>
>>>>os.removedirs("DAF")
>>>>       
>>>>
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in -toplevel-
>    os.removedirs("DAF")
>  File "/home/ertlj/ertljVersion/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 167, in
>removedirs
>    rmdir(name)
>OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: 'DAF'
>
>Thanks,
>
>John Ertl
>
>
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it seems to me that if its on a *nix box you could use the shell command
rm -rf <target>
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