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 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > >_______________________________________________ >Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > it seems to me that if its on a *nix box you could use the shell command rm -rf <target> _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor