New submission from Yu Liu <[email protected]>:
Given the following directory structure on a Windows machine:
- foo
- bar
a call to `shutil.rmtree("foo")` will fail when the inner folder `bar` is
opened in an Explorer. The error message indicates the `foo` directory is not
empty, while after the execution, although it failed, the `foo` directory is
empty. So the inner folder `bar` was removed successfully, but `foo` was not.
And the error message is misleading.
It will not fail when `foo` is opened in an Explorer, neither on Linux system.
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components: Library (Lib), Windows
messages: 315077
nosy: giampaolo.rodola, paul.moore, philius, steve.dower, tarek, tim.golden,
zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: shutil.rmtree fails when the inner floder is opened in Explorer on
Windows
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6
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