[New-bugs-announce] [issue15872] shutil.rmtree(..., ignore_errors=True) doesn't ignore all errors

[Jakub Wilk]

New submission from Jakub Wilk:

This used to work correctly in Python 3.2:

Python 3.3.0rc1 (default, Aug 29 2012, 00:39:20) 
[GCC 4.7.1] on linux
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>>> import shutil
>>> shutil.rmtree('/etc/fstab', ignore_errors=True)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/shutil.py", line 456, in rmtree
    "Not a directory: '{}'".format(path))
NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/etc/fstab'

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messages: 169936
nosy: jwilk
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: shutil.rmtree(..., ignore_errors=True) doesn't ignore all errors
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3

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