problem recursively removing directories on an NFS mount

[Curtis Jensen]

I have a function to recursively remove directories:
def removeDir( dirName ):
   """recursively remove a directory """

   for name in os.listdir( dirName ):
     full_name = os.path.join(dirName, name)

     if os.path.isdir( full_name ):
       removeDir( full_name )
     else:
       os.remove( full_name )
   #end for name

   os.rmdir( dirName )


Using python1.5.2 on an IRIX 6.5 system, this function usually works 
fine.  However, sometimes nfs files of the form ".nfs07D7761" get 
created.  This causes the os.rmdir( full_name ) command to throw an 
exception because the directory is not empty.  It appears that the 
os.remove() function causes NFS to generate these files.  Is this a bug 
in os.remove or nfs or my function?  What would be the best way to fix 
this problem?
Thanks.

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