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#
# Copyright (c) 2005 Zope Corporation and Contributors.
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#
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"""Miscellaneous utilities."""

__all__ = ["rmtree_force",
          ]

def rmtree_force(path):
    """Like shutil.rmtree(path), but deletes read-only files too.

    This is an important distinction on Windows, where a file marked
    read-only cannot be deleted by os.remove().
    """

    import shutil
    import os

    if not os.path.exists(path):
        return

    # Python 2.4's rmtree has a sufficient error hook, but 2.3's does not.
    # So, make everything readable first by walking the tree.
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
        for fname in files:
            os.chmod(os.path.join(root, fname), 0666)

    shutil.rmtree(path)


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