From 95d68831f10abe9a47efba00dfea393413c31099 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hynek Schlawack <hs@ox.cx>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:27:31 +0200
Subject: #4489 Make fd based rmtree work on bytes

---
 Lib/shutil.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Lib/shutil.py')

diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index 2c00f4a025..3cafd01d23 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -426,6 +426,9 @@ def rmtree(path, ignore_errors=False, onerror=None):
         def onerror(*args):
             raise
     if _use_fd_functions:
+        # While the unsafe rmtree works fine on bytes, the fd based does not.
+        if isinstance(path, bytes):
+            path = os.fsdecode(path)
         # Note: To guard against symlink races, we use the standard
         # lstat()/open()/fstat() trick.
         try:
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