[Tutor] removedirs ?

[Juan Shen]

Of course, shutil.rmtree() is a fast and direct method, but still a 
little warning, it could be dangerous.  No warning and ensure will be 
raised while removing a tree of files.
    Juan Shen
Kent Johnson wrote:

> 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
>>
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