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(I'm sure Barry didn't mind, I just assigned it to him
because rev. 1.27 had his name on it. :-)

I saw the patch, don't have time to apply it, note that it
has three(!) nested try-except blocks; instead, it should
really have some smaller ones around just exactly the call
that you expect to raise an exception.  Exceptions elsewhere
should *not* be caught.

Also, the raise statement in handle_error() should just be
"raise" without parameters, which re-raises the original
exception. The exception already contains the filename, usually.

Finally: os.walk() seems to suppress errors in os.listdir().
Technically, errors in os.listdir() should be treated the
same as errors in os.remove() / os.rmdir(), but that means
we can't use os.walk() -- or we'd have to add error handling
to it recursively.