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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-08-24 17:48:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-08-24 17:48:40 +0000 |
| commit | 1b2695a4c24a8f44bc68b3f6bcf9f2d62b67dcef (patch) | |
| tree | b1551176a2334783c6837d7825906b065759135b | |
| parent | 626c0aabe8f6d33b6af9e180277c3c3e95433fdb (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-1b2695a4c24a8f44bc68b3f6bcf9f2d62b67dcef.tar.gz | |
#6677: note that rmdir only removes empty directories.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/os.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index cab2522d2a..4cc6d4f662 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -1121,7 +1121,10 @@ Files and Directories .. function:: rmdir(path) - Remove the directory *path*. Availability: Unix, Windows. + Remove (delete) the directory *path*. Only works when the directory is + empty, otherwise, :exc:`OSError` is raised. In order to remove whole + directory trees, :func:`shutil.rmtree` can be used. Availability: Unix, + Windows. .. function:: stat(path) |