Cannot Remove File: Device or resource busy

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On 17/11/2010 01:37, Brett Bowman wrote:
> I'm spawning a subprocess to fix some formating errors with a library of
> PDFs with pdftk:
>      try:
>          sp = subprocess.Popen('pdftk.exe "%s" output %s' % (pdfFile,
> outputFile))
>          sp.wait()
>          del sp
>      except Exception, e:
>          return "Unable to open file: %s with error: %s" % (pdfFile, str(e))
>
> And then I test the result:
>      try:
>          pdf_handle = open(outputFile, "rb")
>          pdf_pypdf = PdfFileReader(pdf_handle)
>          del pdf_pypdf
>          del pdf_handle
>      except Exception, e:
>          return "Unable to open file: %s with error: %s" % (outputFile,
> str(e))
>
> Both of which appear to work.  But when I try to delete the original
> pdfFile, I get an error message saying that the file is still in use.
>
> if I use:
>      sp = subprocess.Popen('rm "%s"' % pdfFile)
>      sp.wait()
> I get the message - the standard error message from rm
>
> and if I use:
>      cwd = os.getcwd()
>      os.remove(cwd + "\\" + pdfFile)
> I get "WindowsError: [Error 32]"  saying much the same thing.
>
> What am I missing?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Details:
> Python 2.6
> Windows XP
>
Try Process Explorer, available from Microsoft at:

     http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

and use Find. That will tell you what has it open.