[Tutor] removedirs ?

[Kent Johnson]

You misunderstand what removedirs does. It removes an empty directory; then, if the removed 
directory's parent is now empty, it removes that, too, and so on until it finds a directory with 
something in it or gets up to the root.

Try shutil.rmtree() or this recipe:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.2/PyWin32/Recursive_directory_deletes_and_special_files.html

Kent

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
>