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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2011-08-02 10:52:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2011-08-02 10:52:28 (GMT) |
| commit | ef5c71617634ba24b6ed14d65d0466fe84e53057 (patch) | |
| tree | 5a9588e7a6a8255ec6d449d15d01e6fffac03841 /Doc | |
| parent | eb71ad4c71a95d9b7397e3baaaadcb0687efa894 (diff) | |
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Fix closes Issue12183 - Explain the Symlink copy behavior in shutil.copytree. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 5e5f8c9..a785682 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 |