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| author | Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> | 2010-04-20 09:13:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> | 2010-04-20 09:13:23 (GMT) |
| commit | 7aa6da05095349a894dca18ab304a22d692707d2 (patch) | |
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added a note on shutil.copytree improvements
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index a8b2fe4..1a7d080 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules (Contributed by Georg Brandl and Mattias Brändström; `appspot issue 53094 <http://codereview.appspot.com/53094>`_.) +* The :func:`shutil.copytree` function has two new options + + * ignore_dangling_symlinks: when symlinks=false (meaning that the function + copy the file pointed by the symlink, not the symlink itself) + this option will silent the error thrown if the file doesn't exists. + + * copy_function: a callable that will be used to copy files. + :func:`shutil.copy2` is used by default. + + (Contributed by Tarek Ziade) + Multi-threading =============== |