Bugs item #1739115, was opened at 2007-06-18 14:41
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>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Bj�rn Lindqvist (sonderblade)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: shutil.rmtree's error message is confusing
Initial Comment:
If you run shutil.rmtree(something) on Windows where something is file and not
a directory, you get the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python25\Lib\shutil.py", line 161, in rmtree
onerror(os.listdir, path, sys.exc_info())
File "C:\Python25\Lib\shutil.py", line 159, in rmtree
names = os.listdir(path)
WindowsError: [Error 22] The directory name is invalid: 'foobar/*.*'
The error message is pretty confusing and it shouldn't be to hard to fix it.
Plus, if it shouldn't be possible to remove files with shutil.rmtree(), then
the docs should say so.
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>Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2007-06-19 12:38
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Updated the docs in rev. 56040, 56041 (2.5).
IMO the error message is clear enough now if you read the docs.
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