hi i am checking if a directory exists and if it does i want to delete it and its contents.then i want to create the directory before creating files in it.
def myfolderops(): testdir='..\mytestdir' #if dir exist remove it if isdir(testdir): rmdir(testdir) #again create directory mkdir(testdir) I am working on WinXP and logged in as admin in WinXP. when there is no dir called '..\mytestdir' or an empty dir this code works removing and creating the directory.but if the directory exists with contents already then it causes an error 145 when rmdir is executed.the message says 'directory is not empty' what should i do to correct this? (i need to remove the dir with its contents because each time i will be putting diff files into it and donot want them to be mixed with old files) thanks RG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list