[issue22040] Add a "force" parameter to shutil.rmtree

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

In other words, on unix shutil.rmtree is *already* 'rm -rf'.  This then argues that it *not* deleting read only files on Windows is a bug, albeit one we may not be able to fix for backward compatibility reasons.

Ah, and now my memory is jogged.  This is a duplicate of issue 19643, and that was more or less the conclusion.

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resolution:  -> duplicate
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed
superseder:  -> shutil rmtree fails on readonly files in Windows

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