[issue24672] shutil.rmtree failes on non ascii filenames

Tim Golden added the comment: Can you confirm whether it also fails if you pass in a unicode string? eg shutil.rmtree(u"filename.txt") -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue24672] shutil.rmtree failes on non ascii filenames

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[issue24672] shutil.rmtree failes on non ascii filenames

New submission from Steffen Kampmann: I run python 2.7 on Windows 7 and the function rmtree of the shutil package fails to remove files with a non ascii filename: File "C:\Users\skampmann\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\shutil.py", line 247, in rmtreermtree(fullname, ignore_errors