[issue22022] test_pathlib: shutil.rmtree() sporadic failures on Windows

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 1db5cde4958f by Victor Stinner in branch '3.4': Issue #19811, #22022: test_pathlib uses support.rmtree() instead of http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1db5cde4958f New changeset e405bcbf761c by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Merge Python 3.4 http

[issue22022] test_pathlib: shutil.rmtree() sporadic failures on Windows

Zachary Ware added the comment: This looks like a duplicate of #19811, which was closed as a duplicate of #19629. -- nosy: +zach.ware resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> support.rmtree fails on symlinks under Windows

[issue22022] test_pathlib: shutil.rmtree() sporadic failures on Windows

Ned Batchelder added the comment: FWIW, every use of rmtree I have on Windows occasionally fails this way, parallelism seems not to be a factor. -- nosy: +nedbat ___ Python tracker

[issue22022] test_pathlib: shutil.rmtree() sporadic failures on Windows

New submission from STINNER Victor: Sometimes, test_pathlib fails because shutil.rmtree() cannot remove a test directory. Example: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Windows7%20SP1%203.x/builds/4833/steps/test/logs/stdio