Re: [Tutor] removedirs ?

[Juan Shen]

Of course, shutil.rmtree() is a fast and direct method, but still a 
little warning, it could be dangerous.  No warning and ensure will be 
raised while removing a tree of files.
   Juan Shen
Kent Johnson wrote:

You misunderstand what removedirs does. It removes an empty directory; 
then, if the removed directory's parent is now empty, it removes that, 
too, and so on until it finds a directory with something in it or gets 
up to the root.

Try shutil.rmtree() or this recipe:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.2/PyWin32/Recursive_directory_deletes_and_special_files.html 

Kent
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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