Jason R. Coombs added the comment:
I've confirmed the issue. It does indeed only occur if the string passed to
rmtree is bytes. I discovered this during my investigation of
https://github.com/cherrypy/cherrypy/issues/1467. The following script will
replicate the failure on Windows systems on Python 2 and Python 3, but not on
other operating systems:
---
# encoding: utf-8
from __future__ import unicode_literals
import os
import shutil
os.mkdir('temp')
with open('temp/Слава Україні.html', 'w'):
pass
print(os.listdir(b'temp')[0])
shutil.rmtree(b'temp')
---
The error on Python 2.7 is this:
????? ???????.html
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\jaraco\p\cherrypy\issue-1467.py", line 15, in <module>
shutil.rmtree(b'temp')
File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 252, in rmtree
onerror(os.remove, fullname, sys.exc_info())
File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 250, in rmtree
os.remove(fullname)
WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax
is incorrect: 'temp\\????? ???????.html'
This issue might be related to issue25911 or issue24230 or issue18713 or
issue16656 or issue9820 and probably others.
It's not obvious to me browsing through those tickets why Windows should behave
differently when a bytestring is passed to listdir. Perhaps I'll delve into
those tickets in more depth.
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nosy: +jason.coombs
title: shutil.rmtree failes on non ascii filenames -> shutil.rmtree fails on
non ascii filenames
versions: +Python 3.5, Python 3.6
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