Re: [Tutor] removedirs ?

[Jason Child]

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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:36
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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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