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| author | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2011-08-02 14:42:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2011-08-02 14:42:24 (GMT) |
| commit | 3083c8889831eb557419799aa3a3478b899e3830 (patch) | |
| tree | 47d528adde7abf763c98f7b7bfbc4941b6d24ea9 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 88bf51baff31eab153bfb3980ff318c469fc48a6 (diff) | |
| parent | ef5c71617634ba24b6ed14d65d0466fe84e53057 (diff) | |
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#12183: merge with 3.2.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 799230c..6f70206 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -101,8 +101,9 @@ Directory and files operations :func:`copy2`. If *symlinks* is true, symbolic links in the source tree are represented as - symbolic links in the new tree; if false or omitted, the contents of the - linked files are copied to the new tree. + symbolic links in the new tree, but the metadata of the original links is NOT + copied; if false or omitted, the contents and metadata of the linked files + are copied to the new tree. When *symlinks* is false, if the file pointed by the symlink doesn't exist, a exception will be added in the list of errors raised in |