Ivan Radic added the comment: >You are essentially asking that we have an option to make the windows behavior >mirror the posix behavior? (A read only file in a writable directory can be >deleted in posix, since only the directory entry, not the file, is being >deleted.)
Actually, your explanation is perfect. I want to be able to remove some directory after I am done using it. When similar operation is done through file manager, dialog pops up asking for confirmation, I would like to have function parameter equivalent of "yes to all" dialog that file manager gives me. The thing is, anyone working with files is used to think in "rm -rf" kind of way, and on Windows read_only files break this workflow. I discovered this problem few days ago when I was working on custom backup script that needs to work both on Linux (at home) and Windows (at work). Currently, I need to have some extra *windows only* code just to be able to successfully remove a directory. Quick Google search discovered the workaround (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1889597/deleting-directory-in-python), so I am set, but the original question: "Why oh why is this such a pain?" and the comment: "Maybe nobody has taken the five minutes to file a bug at bugs.python.org" resonated in my head long enough to give it a try. For me it makes sense to have this option configurable. And it make a ton of sense to support one line equivalent of "rm -rf". ---------- _______________________________________ 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
