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RE: Remove directory tree without following symlinks

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> From: eryksun@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:28:01 -0500
> Subject: Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks
> To: python-list@python.org
> 
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam
> <sjeik_appie@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > FYI, Just today I found out that shutil.rmtree raises a WindowsError if the dir is read-
> > only (or its contents). Using 'ignore_errors', won't help. Sure, no error is raised, but the
> > dir is not deleted either! A 'force' option would be a nice improvement.
> 
> Use the onerror handler to call os.chmod(path, stat.S_IWRITE). For
> example, see pip's rmtree_errorhandler:
> 
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/8.1.1/pip/utils/__init__.py#L105

Thanks, that looks useful indeed. I thought about os.chmod, but with os.walk. That seemed expensive. So I used subprocess.call('rmdir "%s" /s /q' % dirname). That's Windows only, of course, but aside of that, is using subprocess less preferable?Fun fact: I used it to remove .svn dirs, just like what is mentioned in the pip comments :-)

 		 	   		  

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Remove directory tree without following symlinks Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-23 00:56 +1000
  Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-22 11:09 -0400
    Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-23 03:14 +1000
      RE: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Albert-Jan Roskam <sjeik_appie@hotmail.com> - 2016-04-22 17:39 +0000
      Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-04-22 13:28 -0500
      RE: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Albert-Jan Roskam <sjeik_appie@hotmail.com> - 2016-04-23 09:34 +0000
      Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-04-23 15:22 -0500
      Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-04-24 14:42 -0500
  Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-04-23 01:13 -0700
    Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-23 20:24 +1000
      Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-04-23 23:37 +1200
      Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-23 17:04 -0400
  Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-04-23 17:29 +0100
    Re: Remove directory tree without following symlinks Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-23 17:07 -0400

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