rmdir problem

2008-03-11 Thread royG
hi i am checking if a directory exists and if it does i want to delete it and its contents.then i want to create the directory before creating files in it. def myfolderops(): testdir='..\mytestdir' #if dir exist remove it if isdir(testdir): rmdir(testdir) #again create

Re: rmdir problem

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Hankin
On Mar 11, 10:35 am, royG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am checking if a directory exists and if it does i want to delete it and its contents.then i want to create the directory before creating files in it. Have a look at shutil.rmtree -- Paul Hankin --

Re: rmdir problem

2008-03-11 Thread Tim Golden
royG wrote: hi i am checking if a directory exists and if it does i want to delete it and its contents.then i want to create the directory before creating files in it. def myfolderops(): testdir='..\mytestdir' #if dir exist remove it if isdir(testdir): rmdir(testdir)

Re: rmdir problem

2008-03-11 Thread royG
On Mar 11, 3:37 pm, Paul Have a look at shutil.rmtree thanks Paul RG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list