[Tutor] removedirs ?

[Ertl, John]

I am trying to remove a directory that has other directories and files in
it.  I thought removedirs was supposed to do a recursive remove of files and
directories.

When I try it I get 

>>> os.removedirs("DAF")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in -toplevel-
    os.removedirs("DAF")
  File "/home/ertlj/ertljVersion/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 167, in
removedirs
    rmdir(name)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: 'DAF'

Thanks,

John Ertl