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Patch from Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@cs.uni-sb.de>: added 'remove_tree()'.

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Greg Ward 2000-03-18 15:42:22 +00:00
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Lib/distutils/util.py
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
__revision__ = "$Id$" __revision__ = "$Id$"
import os, string import os, string, shutil
from distutils.errors import * from distutils.errors import *
@ -378,6 +378,25 @@ def copy_tree (src, dst,
# copy_tree () # copy_tree ()
def remove_tree (directory, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
"""Recursively remove an entire directory tree. Any errors are ignored
(apart from being reported to stdout if 'verbose' is true)."""
if verbose:
print "removing '%s' (and everything under it)" % directory
if dry_run:
return
try:
shutil.rmtree(directory,1)
except (IOError, OSError), exc:
if verbose:
if exc.filename:
print "error removing %s: %s (%s)" % \
(directory, exc.strerror, exc.filename)
else:
print "error removing %s: %s" % (directory, exc.strerror)
# XXX I suspect this is Unix-specific -- need porting help! # XXX I suspect this is Unix-specific -- need porting help!
def move_file (src, dst, def move_file (src, dst,
verbose=0, verbose=0,