Simon Willison’s Weblog

25th October 2022

TIL os.remove() on Windows fails if the file is already open — I puzzled over this one for [quite a while](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/503) this morning. I had this test that was failing with Windows on Python 3.11:

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Posted 25th October 2022 at 8:45 pm

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