New submission from Ivan Radic:
Shutil supports deleting of files and directories but it offers no way to
delete directory content (without deleting directory itself). Shell programming
includes a lot of "rm -rf /dir" and "rm -f /dir/*", and there is no direct
equivalent of these commands in Python. Educate me if I am wrong on this claim.
Sure, I can write a quick for loop, and delete each subfile and subdirectory
manually, but adding such ability to shutil would greatly enhance readability
and simplicity of Python file handling scripts.
Implementation could be as simply as :
import os
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False):
for name in files:
os.remove(os.path.join(root, name))
for name in dirs:
os.rmdir(os.path.join(root, name))
(example taken from http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.walk)
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components: IO
messages: 203283
nosy: ivan.radic
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: shutil to support equivalent of: rm -f /dir/*
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5
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