I just conducted a rapid poll of a non-technical userbase. (Okay, I just asked my sister who happens to be sitting here. But she's nontechnical.)
She explained "recursive" as "it repeats until it can't go any further". I think that's a fair, if not perfectly accurate, explanation. Actually... if we accept that one iteration is deleting all files from one depth level, then yes, the algorithm repeats that operation. And I'm using "iteration" here without implying that it's an iterative function. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
