Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
I think it should be possible to add a wait=False parameter to rmtree which
makes it block until the directory is gone away. This could be similar to the
test.support feature added in #15496.
For compatibility, such a flag should default to False, and users
New submission from Christian Mikula:
OS Windows 8 Enterprise x64 clean installed.
Python Version 2.6.6 and 2.7.3 both x64 installed.
Problem is to delete one Directory and immediately after create one new with
the same Name!
!!! Code !!!
import sys, platform, os, shutil
TEST_PATH = /test
Changes by Christian Mikula christian.mik...@live.at:
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R. David Murray added the comment:
I believe this is a Windows...feature? We have lots of trouble with this
ourselves in the test suite, if I understand correctly.
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Christian Mikula added the comment:
I also think that it is a windows feature! who should report this problem with
microsoft?
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Brian Curtin added the comment:
I'm not sure Microsoft is going to change anything about this - it has done
this for a long time, if not forever. We recently had #15496 receive changes,
and #7443 is in the same area and has more details and some patches, so I'd
suggest taking up the
