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| author | Windson yang <wiwindson@outlook.com> | 2019-09-13 13:36:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | Stéphane Wirtel <stephane@wirtel.be> | 2019-09-13 13:36:09 (GMT) |
| commit | 9585f46b97931d2640c3343dfe03aed15beb9fea (patch) | |
| tree | 3804a34c2e06c87ea6b5b44d228e72f14c467300 /Doc | |
| parent | 995b5d38e7cc24cac3de8dfd516115f86b0bcf80 (diff) | |
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bpo-26468: Doc: improve the documentation of shutil.copy2 when it can fail. (GH-13765)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 88c5f62..174b7e8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ Directory and files operations However, this functionality is not available on all platforms. On platforms where some or all of this functionality is unavailable, :func:`copy2` will preserve all the metadata - it can; :func:`copy2` never returns failure. + it can; :func:`copy2` never raises an exception because it + cannot preserve file metadata. :func:`copy2` uses :func:`copystat` to copy the file metadata. Please see :func:`copystat` for more information |