[issue19643] shutil rmtree fails on readonly files in Windows

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

You are essentially asking that we have an option to make the windows behavior mirror the posix behavior?  (A read only file in a writable directory can be deleted in posix, since only the directory entry, not the file, is being deleted.)

That makes some sense to me.  I wonder what the windows devs think?

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components: +Library (Lib), Windows -IO
nosy: +r.david.murray, tim.golden, zach.ware
type: behavior -> enhancement
versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 2.7, Python 3.3

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