Ned Deily <n...@python.org> added the comment:
... and the other important difference is that older versions of macOS do not support fd functions so _use_fd_functions is false and the alternate path is taken in shutil.rmtree, the path that calls _rm_tree_islink which fails. >>> shutil.rmtree('a') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/shutil.py", line 718, in rmtree if _rmtree_islink(path): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/shutil.py", line 564, in _rmtree_islink (st.st_file_attributes & stat.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT AttributeError: 'os.stat_result' object has no attribute 'st_file_attributes' ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37834> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com