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Recursively Deleting Files and Subdirectories

import os emptyDirs = [] path = "c:/" def deleteFiles(dirList, dirPath):     for file in dirList:         print "Deleting " + file         os.remove(dirPath + "/" + file) def removeDirectory(dirEntry):     print "Deleting files in " + dirEntry[0]     deleteFiles(dirEntry[2], dirEntry[0])     emptyDirs.insert(0, dirEntry[0]) tree = os.walk(path) for directory in tree:     removeDirectory(directory) for dir in emptyDirs:     print "Removing " + dir     os.rmdir(dir)