Re: [Python-ideas] Adding optional parameter to shutil.rmtree to not delete root.

2016-08-25 Thread Nick Jacobson via Python-ideas
+1 for clear_dir() I agree that there's no other obvious meaning that it could have. On Thursday, August 25, 2016 9:44 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On 25 August 2016 at 23:14, Victor Stinner wrote: > Maybe add a different function rather add a flag? Something like > shutil.remove_dir_files

[Python-ideas] Adding optional parameter to shutil.rmtree to not delete root.

2016-08-24 Thread Nick Jacobson via Python-ideas
I've been finding that a common scenario is where I want to remove everything in a directory, but leave the (empty) root directory behind, not removing it. So for example, if I have a directory C:\foo and it contains subdirectory C:\foo\bar and file C:\foo\myfile.txt, and I want to remove the sub