[issue19643] shutil rmtree fails on readonly files in Windows
R. David Murray
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Nov 18 20:24:13 CET 2013
R. David Murray added the comment:
That's not a good name for the flag. The problem is that 'read-only' means different things on Windows than it does on Unix. Which is why I suggested that the flag control whether or not it acts "posix like" on Windows. So perhaps 'posix_compat'? That feels a bit odd, though, since on posix it does nothing...so it's really about behavioral consistency across platforms....
Hmm. It's really hard to think of a name that conveys succinctly what we are talking about here.
A more radical notion would be something like 'delete_control' and have it be tri-valued: 'unixlike', 'windowslike', and 'native', with the default being native. Bad names, most likely, but you get the idea. The disadvantage is that it would be even more code to implement ;)
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