From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Incorrect Python errors when using os.remove to delete a directory
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151127145105.GG14466@dinwoodie.org> (raw)
If I use os.remove in Python to remove a directory, I expect it to fail
with an OSError on Python2 or a IsADirectoryError on Python3. On
Python2, I get OSError, but with the wrong error code, whereas on
Python3 I get completely the wrong exception.
Simple testcases:
$ rm -rf testdir && mkdir testdir && python -c 'import os; os.remove("testdir")'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: 'testdir'
$ rm -rf testdir && mkdir testdir && python3 -c 'import os; os.remove("testdir")'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: 'testdir'
On my handy CentOS box, I see the following instead:
$ rm -rf testdir && mkdir testdir && python -c 'import os; os.remove("testdir")'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: 'testdir'
$ rm -rf testdir && mkdir testdir && python3 -c 'import os; os.remove("testdir")'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: 'testdir'
Now I've realised what's going wrong I can work around it, but it'd be
nice if the correct error were raised in the first place.
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2015-11-27 15:07 Adam Dinwoodie [this message]
2015-11-27 15:20 ` Michael Wild
2015-12-02 15:31 ` Adam Dinwoodie
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