[New-bugs-announce] [issue22024] Add to shutil the ability to wait until files are definitely deleted

[Zachary Ware]

New submission from Zachary Ware:

As suggested by Martin in msg170717, shutil should grow some way to block until a given file/directory is actually deleted, due to Windows' scheme of not actually deleting a file until all handles to it are closed.

This could take the form of a 'wait=False' parameter to rmtree that causes rmtree to block until the file/dir is gone (which could mean blocking indefinitely), or a new function "wait_until_deleted(name, timeout=None)".

Related issues: #15946, #7443, #19629

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components: Library (Lib)
keywords: easy
messages: 223604
nosy: zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Add to shutil the ability to wait until files are definitely deleted
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.5

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