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Author loewis
Recipients brian.curtin, cmikula, loewis, r.david.murray, tim.golden
Date 2012-09-19.09:32:22
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I think it should be possible to add a wait=False parameter to rmtree which makes it block until the directory is gone away. This could be similar to the test.support feature added in #15496.

For compatibility, such a flag should default to False, and users need to be aware that this may block "indefinitely". I'd be opposed to specifying a timeout - users who need that can use the non-blocking version, and then loop themselves (or we expose a separate wait function with a timeout).

Of course, such a feature could not be added to 2.7.
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2012-09-19 09:32:23loewissetrecipients: + loewis, tim.golden, r.david.murray, brian.curtin, cmikula
2012-09-19 09:32:23loewissetmessageid: <1348047143.75.0.862929512433.issue15946@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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