From d931b656f8113d5199456c56e51bce030bd34cc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Nagy <tnagy2pow10@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 10:43:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] let Node.delete evict the node in question

---
 waflib/Node.py | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/waflib/Node.py b/waflib/Node.py
index 59b9a281..1d45668a 100644
--- a/waflib/Node.py
+++ b/waflib/Node.py
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ class Node(object):
 		os.chmod(self.abspath(), val)
 
 	def delete(self):
-		"""Delete the file/folder physically (but not the node)"""
+		"""Delete the file/folders, and remove this node from the tree. It becomes invalid after that"""
 		try:
 			if getattr(self, 'children', None):
 				shutil.rmtree(self.abspath())
@@ -196,11 +196,7 @@ class Node(object):
 				os.unlink(self.abspath())
 		except OSError:
 			pass
-
-		try:
-			delattr(self, 'children')
-		except AttributeError:
-			pass
+		self.evict()
 
 	def evict(self):
 		"""Internal - called when a node is removed"""