[Python-checkins] cpython: Issue19643 Add an example of shutil.rmtree which shows how to cope with
tim.golden
python-checkins at python.org
Wed May 7 19:08:14 CEST 2014
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/31d63ea5dffa
changeset: 90583:31d63ea5dffa
user: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
date: Wed May 07 18:05:45 2014 +0100
summary:
Issue19643 Add an example of shutil.rmtree which shows how to cope with readonly files on Windows
files:
Doc/library/shutil.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -421,6 +421,26 @@
copytree(source, destination, ignore=_logpath)
+.. _shutil-rmtree-example:
+
+rmtree example
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This example shows how to remove a directory tree on Windows where some
+of the files have their read-only bit set. It uses the onerror callback
+to clear the readonly bit and reattempt the remove. Any subsequent failure
+will propagate. ::
+
+ import os, stat
+ import shutil
+
+ def remove_readonly(func, path, _):
+ "Clear the readonly bit and reattempt the removal"
+ os.chmod(path, stat.S_IWRITE)
+ func(path)
+
+ shutil.rmtree(directory, onerror=remove_readonly)
+
.. _archiving-operations:
Archiving operations
--
Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython
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