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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/shutil.rst2
-rw-r--r--Lib/shutil.py2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
index 7ec159d..5fd17d2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Directory and files operations
exist, a exception will be added in the list of errors raised in
a :exc:`Error` exception at the end of the copy process.
You can set the optional *ignore_dangling_symlinks* flag to true if you
- want to silent this exception.
+ want to silence this exception.
If *ignore* is given, it must be a callable that will receive as its
arguments the directory being visited by :func:`copytree`, and a list of its
diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index e3a79ef..db47417 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ 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 silent this exception.
+ want to silence this exception.
The optional ignore argument is a callable. If given, it