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-rw-r--r--Lib/shutil.py3
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_shutil.py9
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index 2c00f4a025..3cafd01d23 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -426,6 +426,9 @@ def rmtree(path, ignore_errors=False, onerror=None):
def onerror(*args):
raise
if _use_fd_functions:
+ # While the unsafe rmtree works fine on bytes, the fd based does not.
+ if isinstance(path, bytes):
+ path = os.fsdecode(path)
# Note: To guard against symlink races, we use the standard
# lstat()/open()/fstat() trick.
try:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
index c879fdd830..d23deee624 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
@@ -108,6 +108,15 @@ class TestShutil(unittest.TestCase):
self.tempdirs.append(d)
return d
+ def test_rmtree_works_on_bytes(self):
+ tmp = self.mkdtemp()
+ victim = os.path.join(tmp, 'killme')
+ os.mkdir(victim)
+ write_file(os.path.join(victim, 'somefile'), 'foo')
+ victim = os.fsencode(victim)
+ self.assertIsInstance(victim, bytes)
+ shutil.rmtree(victim)
+
def test_rmtree_errors(self):
# filename is guaranteed not to exist
filename = tempfile.mktemp()