[Python-ideas] Adding optional parameter to shutil.rmtree to not delete root.

[Victor Stinner]

Maybe add a different function rather add a flag? Something like
shutil.remove_dir_files().

Victor

Le 25 août 2016 4:32 AM, "Nick Jacobson via Python-ideas" <
python-ideas at python.org> a écrit :

> I've been finding that a common scenario is where I want to remove
> everything in a directory, but leave the (empty) root directory behind, not
> removing it.
>
> So for example, if I have a directory C:\foo and it contains subdirectory
> C:\foo\bar and file C:\foo\myfile.txt, and I want to remove the
> subdirectory (and everything in it) and file, leaving only C:\foo behind.
>
> (This is useful e.g. when the root directory has special permissions, so
> it wouldn't be so simple to remove it and recreate it again.)
>
> A number of ways to do this have been offered here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/185936/delete-folder-contents-in-python
>
> But it'd be simpler if there were an optional parameter added to
> shutil.rmtree, called removeroot. It would default to true so as to not
> break any backward compatibility. If it's set to false, then it leaves the
> root directory in place.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
>
>
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