[issue8705] shutil.rmtree with empty filepath

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:

Just as an FYI, a similar situation exists on Solaris.  I had to fix one of the 
Python test suite tests once because it was naively trying to rmtree the CWD.

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[issue8705] shutil.rmtree with empty filepath

[Brian Curtin]

Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org added the comment:

This can't actually work. You can't delete a directory which has open handles 
to it on Windows, namely the Python process you're running in that directory.

The empty file path isn't really the issue here. shutil.rmtree(os.getcwd()) 
attempts the same thing but gives you a better error message since a full path 
gets sent down to os.rmdir rather than .

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[issue8705] shutil.rmtree with empty filepath

[Tarek Ziadé]

Changes by Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com:


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[issue8705] shutil.rmtree with empty filepath

[Tarek Ziadé]

Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment:

Dan,

Can I have the error you get ?

Thanks

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[issue8705] shutil.rmtree with empty filepath

[Dan Koch]

Dan Koch koc...@ornl.gov added the comment:

Here's the session printout. Desktop files under Vista still get deleted 
despite the exception. Does not occur on Fedora 12 or Mac OS X. I can code 
around it by testing for a blank filepath, but it was a surprise.

C:\Users\ko5python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on 
win32
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
 import os, shutil, user
 desktop_dir = os.path.join(user.home, 'Desktop')
 os.chdir(desktop_dir)
 os.getcwd()
'C:\\Users\\ko5\\Desktop'
 shutil.rmtree('')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File stdin, line 1, in module
  File C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py, line 225, in rmtree
onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
  File C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py, line 223, in rmtree
os.rmdir(path)
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: ''


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[issue8705] shutil.rmtree with empty filepath

[Dan Koch]

New submission from Dan Koch koc...@ornl.gov:

The following sequence raises an exception, but nonetheless removes all files 
from the Desktop under Windows Vista.

import os, shutil, user

desktop_dir = os.path.join(user.home, 'Desktop')
os.chdir(desktop_dir)

shutil.rmtree('')

This does not occur under Fedora 12. Not tested on Mac OS X yet.

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title: shutil.rmtree with empty filepath
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