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authorTarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>2010-04-23 13:03:50 (GMT)
committerTarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>2010-04-23 13:03:50 (GMT)
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added a note about the ignore_dangling_symlinks option
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diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index 465f841..8890d24 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@ def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None, copy_function=copy2,
an Error exception at the end of the copy process.
You can set the optional ignore_dangling_symlinks flag to true if you
- want to silence this exception.
-
+ want to silence this exception. Notice that this has no effect on
+ platforms that don't support os.symlink.
The optional ignore argument is a callable. If given, it
is called with the `src` parameter, which is the directory