No, it doesn't. A few things to check:

• Does $path contain the full path of the file, or the correct relative path wrt the current directory for the program?
• Do you have permissions to delete it? (if the same program created it, I would guess so, but permissions could always change in the middle)
• Is that line actually being executed? Try inserting print statements before and after it, to verify that.

--ZZamboni