please don't read the prevous post ,please read this one:
thank you for your suggestion and apologize for my mistake. if i run it and answer the raw_input with "Enter" i get sth is wrong press Return> i comment the try-except and run it and answer the raw_input with "Enter" and get message following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "G:\9\Eb\updateEbBb.py", line 41, in -toplevel- updateNow(base) File "G:\9\Eb\updateEbBb.py", line 28, in updateNow update(d0) File "G:\9\Eb\updateEbBb.py", line 16, in update shutil.rmtree(i) File "D:\Program Files\Python24\lib\shutil.py", line 155, in rmtree onerror(os.listdir, path, sys.exc_info()) File "D:\Program Files\Python24\lib\shutil.py", line 153, in rmtree names = os.listdir(path) WindowsError: [Errno 3] : 'O:/eb/mb/S/*.*' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list