diff -r 87cfa131b535 -r e7e0ae78773e configurationengine/source/testautomation/testautomation/utils.py
--- a/configurationengine/source/testautomation/testautomation/utils.py	Fri Mar 12 08:30:17 2010 +0200
+++ b/configurationengine/source/testautomation/testautomation/utils.py	Tue Aug 10 14:29:28 2010 +0300
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 #
 # Description:
 #
+import os
+import shutil
 
 def hex_to_bindata(hexdata):
     hexdata = hexdata.replace(' ', '').replace('\r', '').replace('\n', '').replace('\t', '')
@@ -27,4 +29,18 @@
         start = i * 2
         end   = start + 2 
         temp.append(chr(int(hexdata[start:end], 16)))
-    return ''.join(temp)
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+    return ''.join(temp)
+
+def remove_if_exists(path_or_paths):
+    """Remove files or directories if they exist.
+    @param path_or_paths: The path to remove. Can also be a list of paths."""
+    if isinstance(path_or_paths, list):
+        paths = path_or_paths
+    else:
+        paths = [path_or_paths]
+    
+    for path in paths:
+        if os.path.isdir(path):
+            shutil.rmtree(path)
+        elif os.path.isfile(path):
+            os.remove(path)
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