On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Sean DiZazzo <sean.diza...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 12:06:20 PM UTC-7, larry....@gmail.com > wrote: >> I have a script that creates a tmp dir, create a lot of files in it, >> and when done, does a rmtree on the dir. When it does that I get this >> message: >> >> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access >> parent directories: No such file or directory >> >> But no exception is thrown. How can I determine why I get this message? > > I usually see that message when I am in a directory in the shell but it has > already been deleted by another process. > > Make sure the directory exists. Is another part of your script deleting the > root directory while rmtree is running? Or something of the like.
Turned out the script's cwd was in a dir that was being removed. I chdir'ed out of there and that resolved the issue. Thanks to all who responded. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
