Intermittent "permission denied" errors when using os.rename and a recently deleted path??

[Neil Hodgson]

Russell Warren:

> I'm actually running both... but I would think that once os.remove
> returns that the file is actually gone from the hdd.  Why would either
> application be blocking access to a non-existent file?

    Does it actually tell you the target is the problem? I see an 
"OSError: [Errno 17] File exists" for that case, not a permission error. 
A permission error could occur, for example, if GDS has the source open 
or locked when you call os.rename.

    Neil