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authorMiss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2020-10-21 05:16:21 (GMT)
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bpo-41646: Mention path-like objects support in the docs for shutil.copy() (GH-22208)
(cherry picked from commit 8f2b991eef062c22c429a96983c78be007180b66) Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
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@@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ Directory and files operations
.. function:: copy(src, dst, *, follow_symlinks=True)
Copies the file *src* to the file or directory *dst*. *src* and *dst*
- should be strings. If *dst* specifies a directory, the file will be
- copied into *dst* using the base filename from *src*. Returns the
- path to the newly created file.
+ should be :term:`path-like objects <path-like object>` or strings. If
+ *dst* specifies a directory, the file will be copied into *dst* using the
+ base filename from *src*. Returns the path to the newly created file.
If *follow_symlinks* is false, and *src* is a symbolic link,
*dst* will be created as a symbolic link. If *follow_symlinks*