Completely Deleting A Directory

[MrJean1]

The answer to 1) is no, due to topdown = False in the call to os.walk.

/Jean

On Apr 26, 8:31 am, MrJean1 <mrje... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Two comments:
>
> 1) Should delete_dir not be called instead of os.rmdir in this line
>
>                 (os.rmdir, os.remove)[os.path.islink(item)](item)
>
> 2) Function rmtree in the shutil module considers symlinks to a
> directory an error <http://docs.python.org/library/shutil.html#module-
> shutil> since Python 2.6.
>
> /Jean
>
> On Apr 26, 2:09 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-
>
>
>
> central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> > It doesn’t seem to mention in the documentation for os.walk
> > <http://docs.python.org/library/os.html> that symlinks to directories are
> > returned in the list of directories, not the list of files. This will lead
> > to an error in the os.rmdir call in the example directory-deletion routine
> > on that page.
>
> > This version fixes that problem.
>
> > def delete_dir(dir) :
> >     """deletes dir and all its contents."""
> >     if os.path.isdir(dir) :
> >         for parent, dirs, files in os.walk(dir, topdown = False) :
> >             for item in files :
> >                 os.remove(os.path.join(parent, item))
> >             #end for
> >             for item in dirs :
> >                 item = os.path.join(parent, item)
> >                 (os.rmdir, os.remove)[os.path.islink(item)](item)
> >             #end for
> >         #end for
> >         os.rmdir(dir)
> >     #end if
> > #end delete_dir