"Remove" and "unlink" are not the most widely-known verbs that come
to mind when thinking about deleting objects from the filesystem.
A recent Google search for "python delete file" led to the documentation
for the 'os' module:
  http://docs.python.org/library/os.html
but searching within that page for "delet" completely misses
os.remove(), os.unlink(), and os.rmdir().

Suggest simply expanding the first sentence of os.remove()'s paragraph to:
   Remove the file /path/ (delete the file).

Similarly for os.rmdir():
   Remove the directory /path/ (delete the directory).

Also regarding os.rmdir(), it would be nice to add a mention here of
this information from os.walk(): "rmdir() doesn’t allow deleting a
directory before the directory is empty."

The URL above is for the 2.6 version (chapter 16.1.4); also seen in the
3.1 documentation (15.1.5); presumably it's also in the development
versions.  Patching backwards as far as feasible would be appreciated.

If a change is make, 'remove (delete)' would be sufficient.

Fixed in r74548.

Thanks, but the bug requested a similar change for "rmdir" as well.

Is it not possible to backport the change to the 2.x branch?

True. Fixed in r74550.

The changes will be ported to all maintained branches soon.

Very good.  Thank you, Georg.