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authorjab <jab@users.noreply.github.com>2018-12-28 18:03:40 (GMT)
committerGiampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com>2018-12-28 18:03:40 (GMT)
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bpo-20849: add dirs_exist_ok arg to shutil.copytree (patch by Josh Bronson)
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@@ -196,6 +196,14 @@ pathlib
contain characters unrepresentable at the OS level.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`33721`.)
+
+shutil
+------
+
+:func:`shutil.copytree` now accepts a new ``dirs_exist_ok`` keyword argument.
+(Contributed by Josh Bronson in :issue:`20849`.)
+
+
ssl
---
@@ -284,7 +292,6 @@ Optimizations
syscalls is reduced by 38% making :func:`shutil.copytree` especially faster
on network filesystems. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola' in :issue:`33695`.)
-
* The default protocol in the :mod:`pickle` module is now Protocol 4,
first introduced in Python 3.4. It offers better performance and smaller
size compared to Protocol 3 available since Python 3.0.