Patch from Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@cs.uni-sb.de>: added 'remove_tree()'.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 2f193fb..7a07b65 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
__revision__ = "$Id$"
-import os, string
+import os, string, shutil
from distutils.errors import *
@@ -378,6 +378,25 @@
# copy_tree ()
+def remove_tree (directory, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
+ """Recursively remove an entire directory tree. Any errors are ignored
+ (apart from being reported to stdout if 'verbose' is true)."""
+
+ if verbose:
+ print "removing '%s' (and everything under it)" % directory
+ if dry_run:
+ return
+ try:
+ shutil.rmtree(directory,1)
+ except (IOError, OSError), exc:
+ if verbose:
+ if exc.filename:
+ print "error removing %s: %s (%s)" % \
+ (directory, exc.strerror, exc.filename)
+ else:
+ print "error removing %s: %s" % (directory, exc.strerror)
+
+
# XXX I suspect this is Unix-specific -- need porting help!
def move_file (src, dst,
verbose=0,