shutil.rmtree raises "OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty" exception

[Maria Liukis]

Hello,

Has anybody seen an exception "OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not  
empty" raised by shutil.rmtree? The code that raised an exception  
creates a lot of directories with files, and then removes them. I got  
an exception when one of such directories was removed. Here is the  
backtrace:

     shutil.rmtree(filename)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/shutil.py", line 178, in rmtree
     onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/shutil.py", line 176, in rmtree
     os.rmdir(path)
OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: /path/to/my/dir

According to the documentation, shutil.rmtree should not care about  
directory being not empty.

Thanks for the help,
Masha
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liukis at usc.edu



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