What is a complete list of Exceptions that can be thrown by shutil.rmtree

Question

I am using the rmtree method from shutil in Python (2.7).

What are all possible exceptions that can occur while calling this method?

Dermal

Is there anything wrong with reading the docs? shutil – Overcompensation

@Jakob I read them, but couldn't figure out from there which errors could be thrown. – Dermal

Answer 1

According to the implementation, you'll have to check OSError. But you can use the argument ignore_errors=True on call to...ignore errors ;) or give a callback onerror that will check the exceptions during the execution of file removal. (cf shutil.rmtree documentation)

Windy

Answer 2

Unless you do something very funky, os.error and OSError

Downcomer

os.error is an alias for OSError ;) (docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.error) – Anaerobe

@Cédric: interesting, I didn't know that. Curiously, rmtree tries to catch both, in different places. Maybe it's some kind of a historic artifact – Downcomer