support.rmtree doesn't work under Windows when there are symlinks (the symlinks aren't deleted anymore), while shutil.rmtree() works fine:

>>> support.rmtree("@test_2160_tmp")
>>> os.listdir("@test_2160_tmp")
['dirA', 'dirB', 'dirC', 'fileA', 'linkA', 'linkB']
>>> shutil.rmtree("@test_2160_tmp")
>>> os.listdir("@test_2160_tmp")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: '@test_2160_tmp'

This breaks the pathlib tests under Windows with symlink privileges held.

shutil.rmtree() uses os.lstat() while support.rmtree() calls os.path.isdir() instead.

Note that using shutil.rmtree() means there are sporadic test_pathlib failures under Windows:
http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Windows7%20SP1%203.x/builds/3436/steps/test/logs/stdio

The attached patch changes support.rmtree to use os.lstat() instead of the builtin _isdir() to test for directory-ness of a path.

Why not starting to use pathlib? pathlib.Path(path).resolve().is_dir().

> Why not starting to use pathlib? pathlib.Path(path).resolve().is_dir().

I would rather keep using low-level APIs in test support functions.

New changeset 28bb1aa9ca3d by Victor Stinner in branch '3.4':
Issue #19629: Fix support.rmtree(), use os.lstat() to check if the file is a
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/28bb1aa9ca3d

New changeset e405bcbf761c by Victor Stinner in branch 'default':
Merge Python 3.4
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e405bcbf761c

New changeset c026ed24a211 by Victor Stinner in branch '3.4':
Issue #19629: Add missing "import stat"
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c026ed24a211

New changeset 168cd3d19fef by Victor Stinner in branch 'default':
(Merge 3.4) Issue #19629: Add missing "import stat"
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/168cd3d19fef