Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rod...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> For convenience, a handler that retries unlink() and rmdir() could be 
> distributed with shutil. For ease of use, it could be enabled by default on 
> Windows.

+1 on that. I bumped into this many times over the years as occasional and 
hardly reproducible test failures when cleaning up test files/dirs. 
The tricky part is how to distinguish a legitimate "directory is not empty" 
error though.

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