[petsc-dev] [Mike McQuaid] Re: [Homebrew/homebrew-core] PETSc: import from homebrew-science (#23598)

[Lawrence Mitchell]

> On 25 Feb 2018, at 21:13, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> The try part of that commit (around os.remove) is necessary.  Also,
> "rmdir -p" provides a useful semantic in this context, but needs to be
> implemented manually in Python (or I don't know where that functionality
> is available in the standard library).

shutil.rmtree

Lawrence