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| author | Jeffrey Kintscher <49998481+websurfer5@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-12-27 16:23:42 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-12-27 16:23:42 (GMT) |
| commit | c66b577d9f7a11ffab57985fd6fb22e9dfd4f245 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f1f83c16e016d6d4b6d4025d596c109318f27a5 /Misc/NEWS.d | |
| parent | 1b19d7376818d14ab865fa22cb66baeacdb88277 (diff) | |
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bpo-26791: Update shutil.move() to provide the same symlink move behavior as the mv shell when moving a symlink into a directory that is the target of the symlink (GH-21759)
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-06-14-43-55.bpo-26791.KxoEfO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-06-14-43-55.bpo-26791.KxoEfO.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6f8dcb --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-06-14-43-55.bpo-26791.KxoEfO.rst @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +:func:`shutil.move` now moves a symlink into a directory when that +directory is the target of the symlink. This provides the same behavior as +the mv shell command. The previous behavior raised an exception. Patch by +Jeffrey Kintscher. |