I am using the rmtree method from shutil in Python (2.7).
What are all possible exceptions that can occur while calling this method?
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1Is there anything wrong with reading the docs? [shutil](http://docs.python.org/library/shutil.html) – Jakob Bowyer May 11 '11 at 09:50
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1@Jakob I read them, but couldn't figure out from there which errors could be thrown. – Peter Smit May 11 '11 at 10:13
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According to the implementation, you'll have to check OSError.
But you can use the argument ignore_errors=True on call to...ignore errors ;) or give a callback onerror that will check the exceptions during the execution of file removal. (cf shutil.rmtree documentation)
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Unless you do something very funky, os.error and OSError
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1os.error is an alias for OSError ;) (http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.error) – Cédric Julien May 11 '11 at 09:53
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2@Cédric: interesting, I didn't know that. Curiously, `rmtree` tries to catch both, in different places. Maybe it's some kind of a historic artifact – Eli Bendersky May 11 '11 at 09:54