What is a complete list of Exceptions that can be thrown by shutil.rmtree

Question

I am using the rmtree method from shutil in Python (2.7).

What are all possible exceptions that can occur while calling this method?

Answer 1

According to the implementation, you'll have to check OSError. But you can use the argument ignore_errors=True on call to...ignore errors ;) or give a callback onerror that will check the exceptions during the execution of file removal. (cf shutil.rmtree documentation)

Answer 2

Unless you do something very funky, os.error and OSError