[Tutor] removedirs ?

[Juan Shen]

This is an iterative method, although much slower than shutil.rmtree(),  
which can be useful sometimes, while some stdout/in is added:

#!/usr/bin/python
#Filename: myrmtree.py

import os,sys,shutil

def rmtree(top):
    uncleandir=[]
    for (root,dirs,files) in os.walk(top,topdown=False):
        for name in dirs+files:
            item=os.path.join(root,name)
            if item in uncleandir:
                uncleandir.append(root)
                continue
            print 'Delete %s : (Yes or No or All or Cancel)' %(item,),
            v=raw_input()
            if v=='Y' or v=='y':
                (os.path.isfile(item) and os.remove or os.rmdir)(item)
            elif v=='N' or v=='n':
                uncleandir.append(root)
                continue
            elif v=='A' or v=='a':
                shutil.rmtree(top)
                return 1
            elif v=='C' or v=='c':
                return 2
            else:
                print 'Take your input as No.'
                continue
    return 0

 >>>from myrmtree import tree
 >>>top='/home/juan/test' #Your dir need to be removed here
 >>>rmtree(top)

Just try it and give suggestions and comments please, Hehe
    Juan Shen

Jason Child wrote:

> is this what you want to do?
>
> import os
> from os.path import join
> # Delete everything reachable from the directory named in 'top'.
> # CAUTION: This is dangerous! For example, if top == '/', it
> # could delete all your disk files.
>
> for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False):
>    for name in files:
>        os.remove(join(root, name))
>    for name in dirs:
>         os.rmdir(join(root, name))
>
> I cant take credit for the code, as I found it when I was trying to 
> hack together a recirsive file remover script. It was in the help 
> files for the os module, under walk(). Go figure; when you try to do 
> things the "hard way" python keeps it simple!
>
> Peace
>
> Jason
>
> Ertl, John wrote:
>
>> Jason,
>>
>> I could...That is the exact feature I am trying to replicate, but I 
>> would
>> just like to do it in Python if I can (in a simple way).  I am 
>> writing this
>> code in Python to avoid some funny scripting that I would need to do. 
>> To go
>> back to combing shell and Python again would be a bit deflating...but 
>> the
>> straight forward path might be the best.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John Ertl
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Child [mailto:jasonchild at cnsp.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:36
>> Cc: tutor at python.org
>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] removedirs ?
>>
>> Ertl, John wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> it seems to me that if its on a *nix box you could use the shell command
>> rm -rf <target>
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