Q:

I can't delete a folder that I just extracted from a zip file in python

So here's my problem. I have a python script that takes a zipfile and extracts its contents. Then based on some constraint, I will try to delete the folder whose contents were just extracted. For some reason I get an error, WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'Foldername' when i try to delete that folder. The simple code looks like the following
wzip = zipfile.ZipFile('zipfile.zip')
wzip.extractall()
wzip.close()
os.remove('ExtractedFolder')
If I run this in the interpreter I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'ExtractedFolder'
I'm using Python 2.6 on Windows Vista 32-bit and I'm kinda baffled as to why this might be happening.

A:

Many reasons possible. 

You need to use os.rmdir to remove directories
You need to empty the folder
first - remember, the Windows command
rmdir needs a /S option to
remove the contents, and Python probably uses that.
Is the unzip
also using the archive's attributes?
Read-only attributes may be applied.
Are you reading anything from that
folder, before you delete? You may
not have closed it.
Windows can cause similar problems with filenames containing
unusual characters

