Re: shutil.rmtree raises OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty exception

On Jul 10, 5:10 pm, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote:      shutil.rmtree(filename)    File /usr/lib64/python2.5/shutil.py, line 178, in rmtree      onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())    File /usr/lib64/python2.5/shutil.py, line 176, in rmtree      os.rmdir(path)

shutil.rmtree raises OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty exception

Hello, Has anybody seen an exception OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty raised by shutil.rmtree? The code that raised an exception creates a lot of directories with files, and then removes them. I got an exception when one of such directories was removed. Here is the backtrace:

Re: shutil.rmtree raises OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty exception

shutil.rmtree(filename) File /usr/lib64/python2.5/shutil.py, line 178, in rmtree onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info()) File /usr/lib64/python2.5/shutil.py, line 176, in rmtree os.rmdir(path) OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: /path/to/my/dir According to the

Re: shutil.rmtree raises OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty exception

Thanks for pointing out the parameters for ignore_errors and an onerror callback function. I have been running this code for more than an year, and this is the very first time I see the problem. We switched to the NFS mounted storage though, but there is nothing unusual logged by the