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author | Mariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-03-11 02:17:21 (GMT) |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-03-11 02:17:21 (GMT) |
commit | 70ee0cd5c2a3dba82cb8e0c0742c012f9134c040 (patch) | |
tree | 07b8c5f09de5170a1d1a39c1e0d1a28f7bf1e2c3 | |
parent | 4b2a2a425a906c8e4eb8daee14ab1793e225f726 (diff) | |
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bpo-29784: Fix the reference to shutil.copy in the docs (GH-602)
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index a85bf33..41e5baf 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Directory and files operations is true and *src* is a symbolic link, *dst* will be a copy of the file *src* refers to. - :func:`copy` copies the file data and the file's permission + :func:`~shutil.copy` copies the file data and the file's permission mode (see :func:`os.chmod`). Other metadata, like the file's creation and modification times, is not preserved. To preserve all file metadata from the original, use @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ Directory and files operations *src* and *dst*, and will be used to copy *src* to *dest* if :func:`os.rename` cannot be used. If the source is a directory, :func:`copytree` is called, passing it the :func:`copy_function`. The - default *copy_function* is :func:`copy2`. Using :func:`copy` as the + default *copy_function* is :func:`copy2`. Using :func:`~shutil.copy` as the *copy_function* allows the move to succeed when it is not possible to also copy the metadata, at the expense of not copying any of the metadata. |