From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:15:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: walk() docs:  Emphasize that the recursive-delete example is dangerous.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~951
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a390c6e194a7a7787aa0dfee0ac6628e542add54;p=python

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 6a1223fd3b..c9cf137b8a 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))