Medical-Event-Data-Standard / Medical-Event-Data-Standard/MEDS-DEV
overwrite=True: runs into directory not empty errors
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Description
The command here:
https://github.com/Medical-Event-Data-Standard/MEDS-DEV/blob/92bfba2af947378a6f4d2d74848a6d360e7df6a3/src/MEDS_DEV/utils.py#L339
Still runs into errors:
OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: dir_to_remove/.logs
(which it shouldn't)
Manually removing with rm -r seems to always work, though.
Found this discussion, which rather confuses me. Seems that we should just retry it? Or perhaps use the cli argument instead (although this then reduces cross-compatibility)?
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Inspect src/MEDS_DEV/utils.py around line 339 and reproduce the overwrite=True case involving the non-empty .logs directory. Compare the behavior with the linked CPython discussion and the rm -r result. Done means overwriting no longer raises OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty.
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