>If I have a directory /u01/qa/logs and the logs has a number of children > directories and I want to remove everything in logs and logs itself, is
os.system('rm -rf %s ' % logpath) Sometimes its easier to use the OS directly! If you were selectively deleting files it would be different but for the sledgehammer case I'd pobably just go with rm... Alan g _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor