Deleting read-only directory in Python
shutil.rmtree can take an error-handling function that will be called when it has problem removing a file. You can use that to force the removal of the problematic file(s).
Inspired by http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2006-June/047551.html and http://techarttiki.blogspot.com/2008/08/read-only-windows-files-with-python.html:
import osimport statimport shutildef remove_readonly(func, path, excinfo): os.chmod(path, stat.S_IWRITE) func(path)shutil.rmtree(top, onerror=remove_readonly)(I haven't tested that snippet out, but it should be enough to get you started)
If you import win32api from PyWin32, you can use:
win32api.SetFileAttributes(path, win32con.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL)To make files cease to be read-only.
Another way is to define rmtree on Windows as
rmtree = lambda path: subprocess.check_call(['cmd', '/c', 'rd', '/s', '/q', path])