New submission from Ivan Radic: shutil.rmtree works nice on Windows until it hits file with read only attribute set. Workaround is to provide a onerror parameter as a function that checks and removes file attribute before attempting to delete it. Can option to delete read_only files be integrated in shutil.rmtree?
Example output in In Python 2.7: shutil.rmtree("C:\\2") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#60>", line 1, in <module> shutil.rmtree("C:\\2") File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python.2.7.3\lib\shutil.py", line 250, in rmtree onerror(os.remove, fullname, sys.exc_info()) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python.2.7.3\lib\shutil.py", line 248, in rmtree os.remove(fullname) WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\2\\read_only_file.txt' Example output in In Python 3.3: shutil.rmtree("C:\\2") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module> shutil.rmtree("C:\\2") File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python.3.3.0\lib\shutil.py", line 460, in rmtree return _rmtree_unsafe(path, onerror) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python.3.3.0\lib\shutil.py", line 367, in _rmtree_unsafe onerror(os.unlink, fullname, sys.exc_info()) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python.3.3.0\lib\shutil.py", line 365, in _rmtree_unsafe os.unlink(fullname) PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\2\\read_only_file.txt' ---------- components: IO messages: 203285 nosy: ivan.radic priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: shutil rmtree fails on readonly files in Windows type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19643> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com