rm -rf in python?

[Vasisht Tadigotla]

> Is there a way (short of executing a shell command) that I can do a rm
> -rf on a directory from python?  It raises an OSError if you try to
> delete a directory that has contents.  I suppose that I could recurse
> down through, deleteing as I went, but it seems that there must be an
> easier way.

use the  rmtree() function in shutil module, works on *nix. i don't think
it works on windows though.

vasisht



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