Change shutil.rmtree and os.walk to support very deep hierarchies

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Estimated time
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Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

Start by reviewing shutil.rmtree and os.walk, then inspect the linked pull requests to understand the existing approaches. Reproduce the failure with a very deep directory hierarchy and confirm that both operations complete without recursion-related crashes.

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Description

3.13 stdlib type-feature
BPO 45564

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created_at = <Date 2021-10-21.22:21:02.146>
labels = ['library', '3.9', 'type-crash']
title = 'shutil.rmtree and os.walk are implemented using recursion, fail on deep hierarchies'
updated_at = <Date 2021-10-21.22:21:02.146>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/AlexanderPatrakov'

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status = 'open'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue45564'
versions = ['Python 3.9']

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