New submission from Zachary Ware: As suggested by Martin in msg170717, shutil should grow some way to block until a given file/directory is actually deleted, due to Windows' scheme of not actually deleting a file until all handles to it are closed.
This could take the form of a 'wait=False' parameter to rmtree that causes rmtree to block until the file/dir is gone (which could mean blocking indefinitely), or a new function "wait_until_deleted(name, timeout=None)". Related issues: #15946, #7443, #19629 ---------- components: Library (Lib) keywords: easy messages: 223604 nosy: zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Add to shutil the ability to wait until files are definitely deleted type: enhancement versions: Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22024> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com