Occasional OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied on Windows
Patrick Maupin
pmaupin at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 14:27:54 EST 2006
Tim Peters wrote:
> In that case, anything that burns some time and tries again
> will work better. Replacing gc.collect() with time.sleep() is
> an easy way to test that hypothesis; because gc.collect()
> does an all-generations collection, it can consume measurable time.
An slight enhancement to this hypothesis-tester (which might even
approach being production-worthy) would be to maintain a list of items
which were not deleted on a particular pass. Sleep after each pass,
then try to kill all the items on the list again. Maintain a counter
of the number of passes which have been made since the last time the
undeleted item list shrank (via a completed deletion), and if the total
time exceeds 'x' or the number of passes since a completed deletion
exceeds 'y', then bail and ask the user to help you out.
Regards,
Pat
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