royG wrote:
> 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)
Two things:
1) Use raw strings (r"..\blah") or forward slashes ("../blah") when
messing with path names under windows.
2) Check out the shutils module:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-shutil.html
TJG
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