rm -rf in python?
Thomas Guettler
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Fri Nov 15 02:10:22 EST 2002
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:25:37 +0100, Vasisht Tadigotla wrote:
>> 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.
AFAIK it works on windows, too.
thomas
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