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Author dbkoch
Recipients dbkoch
Date 2010-05-13.16:57:22
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Message-id <1273769844.52.0.734161024788.issue8705@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The following sequence raises an exception, but nonetheless removes all files from the Desktop under Windows Vista.

import os, shutil, user

desktop_dir = os.path.join(user.home, 'Desktop')
os.chdir(desktop_dir)

shutil.rmtree('')

This does not occur under Fedora 12. Not tested on Mac OS X yet.
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