rm -rf in python

[Michael Hudson]

"David Allen" <s2mdalle at titan.vcu.edu> writes:

> I need to write the equivalent of "rm -rf" in python,
> so I wrote this, but I'm having a hard time understanding
> why it's not working.  
[schnipp]
> Any help would be appreciated.

I haven't read your code, but do you know about shutil.rmtree?

>>> print shutil.rmtree.__doc__ 
Recursively delete a directory tree.

    If ignore_errors is set, errors are ignored; otherwise, if
    onerror is set, it is called to handle the error; otherwise, an
    exception is raised.

Hmm, that docstring isn't quite right...

Cheers,
M.

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