Xah wrote: «In the emacs case: “Recursive delete of xx? (y or n) ”, what could it possibly mean by the word “recursive” there? Like, it might delete the directory but not delete all files in it? »
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > It might *try* to delete the directory but not any of its contents, > yes. you mean theoretically you see a possibility if the dir is implement as stilted as unix, but never in your life you find yourself might want to do it? Xah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list