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? ---------- 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 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19643> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com