Win32SymlinkTests.test_rmdir_on_directory_link_to_missing_target() pass on my Windows 7 64 bits VM (with and without the patch), but is skipped: @unittest.skip("currently fails; consider for improvement") def test_rmdir_on_directory_link_to_missing_target(self): self._create_missing_dir_link() # consider allowing rmdir to remove directory links os.rmdir(self.missing_link) On which OS does it fail? The skip may be changed to only skipped some Windows versions?