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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2003-04-28 19:15:10 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2003-04-28 19:15:10 (GMT) |
| commit | a390c6e194a7a7787aa0dfee0ac6628e542add54 (patch) | |
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walk() docs: Emphasize that the recursive-delete example is dangerous.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index 6a1223f..c9cf137 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -1126,6 +1126,8 @@ directory is empty: import os from os.path import join # Delete everything reachable from the directory named in 'top'. +# CAUTION: This is dangerous! For example, if top == '/', it +# could delete all your disk files. for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False): for name in files: os.remove(join(root, name)) |