[issue19642] shutil to support equivalent of: rm -f /dir/*

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

See also issue 13229.

You can replicate 'rm -f' like this:

   for p in glob.glob('/dir/*'): 
      os.remove(p)

That doesn't seem worth an extra function.

The annoying one to emulate is 'rm -rf /dir/*', because with the current shutil tools you have to make different calls depending on whether the object is a file or a directory.  Pathlib doesn't help with that (it has no generic 'remove' method that applies to both directories and files), but it does make the iteration easier.

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