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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients Charles Machalow, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2020-06-14.07:02:15
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This is virtually a duplicate of issue33498.

shutil.rmtree() is very complex function. It is not trivial task to remove directories and files recursively in safe and efficient way. It needs also a way to customize errors handling. We do not want to duplicate all this code in pathlib if shutil.rmtree() already supports path-like objects.
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2020-06-14 07:02:15serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, Charles Machalow
2020-06-14 07:02:15serhiy.storchakasetmessageid: <1592118135.63.0.757531219797.issue40972@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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