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Remove unused private function shutil._ensure_directory #150885

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opened on Jun 3, 2026
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shutil._ensure_directory(path) has no caller and can be removed.

  • [3.6] bpo-33967: Remove use of deprecated assertRaisesRegexp() (GH-8261) #8295 added it with shutil.unpack_archive() to create the parent directory of each extracted member.
  • gh-146581: Fix vulnerability in shutil.unpack_archive() for ZIP files on Windows #146591 (shutil.unpack_archive() on Windows writes outside extract_dir for ZIP entries with drive-prefixed names #146581), the ZIP path-traversal fix, reworked _unpack_zipfile() to create directories inline and deleted the last _ensure_directory(targetpath) call.

A word-boundary search across Lib, Modules, Python, Objects, and Include finds no reference outside its own definition, and a GitHub code search finds no downstream importer.

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  1. gaborbernat
    added a commit that references this issue on Jun 3, 2026

    pythongh-150885: Remove unused shutil._ensure_directory

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  3. serhiy-storchaka
    added a commit that references this issue on Jun 7, 2026

    gh-150885: Remove unused shutil._ensure_directory (GH-150883)

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  4. serhiy-storchaka
    closed this as completedon Jun 7, 2026
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  6. philthompson10
    added a commit that references this issue on Jun 17, 2026

    pythongh-150885: Remove unused shutil._ensure_directory (pythonGH-150883

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