[python-win32] os.remove not deleting a file

[Preston Landers]

Generally, Windows won't let you delete a file if it's open somewhere,
whether in the same process or in another process. You said the file
becomes delete-able when you kill python, so I'm guessing that another part
of your program (not shown) is holding the file open? You can always use
something like Process Explorer [1] to determine exactly which process is
holding a file lock. If it's your own Python program, look for a place that
is doing a file open() call that is not using a context manager ("with"
statement) or at least manually calling close().

If this block of code you showed is inside a "with open" call for that
file, then that's the problem.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer



On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 5:35 AM Henk Zevenhuizen <henk.zevenhuizen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> This is my first mail to this list and i have a huge problem.
>
> my os.remove(filename)  is not working.
>
> i am running python27 32 bits on a windows 10 64 bits machine
>
> My piece of code (with debugging statements):
>
>         raw_input('before...')
>         print 73, (os.path.join(VERWERKTDIR, orgname))
>
>         if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(VERWERKTDIR, orgname)):
>                 os.remove(os.path.join(VERWERKTDIR, orgname))
>                 raw_input('after...')
>
>                 print 'file removed'
>         else:
>                 print 'no file present''
>
>
> if there is a file to be removed i can see the print 'file removed'
> however the file is still there
>
> when i get the message : 'before' i can delete the file through windows
> explorer and with CTRL-Z i can restore the file
> then i press <Enter> to continue the raw_input('before...')
>
> Then i get the message: "after", the file is still there and i cannot
> delete the through windows explorer (permission denied)
> the only way to delete the file is killing python
>
> I don't have the slightest idea where to look
>
> Has anyone any idea ??
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Henk Zevenhuizen
> Holland
>
>
>
>
>
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