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user14398375
user14398375

Reputation: 175

Can't erase a dir with rmtree because it is being used by another process

I am trying to erase a entire directory with all it content with rmtree but I am getting the following exception:

[WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

the folder that I am trying to erase have some word docs that were opened with win32com.client above in the code, my code to erase is:

shutil.rmtree('destinationFolder')

I also tried to erase every file at once iterating throw the files of the folder and then os.remove but it doesn't work either, throwing the same error.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 479

Answers (1)

Punker
Punker

Reputation: 1878

the folder that i am trying to erase have some word docs that were oppened with win32com.client above in the code

That's exactly why Python throws that error. Try closing these docs before deleting the folder.

Upvotes: 5

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