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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/shutil.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index a85bf33..41e5baf 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Directory and files operations is true and *src* is a symbolic link, *dst* will be a copy of the file *src* refers to. - :func:`copy` copies the file data and the file's permission + :func:`~shutil.copy` copies the file data and the file's permission mode (see :func:`os.chmod`). Other metadata, like the file's creation and modification times, is not preserved. To preserve all file metadata from the original, use @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ Directory and files operations *src* and *dst*, and will be used to copy *src* to *dest* if :func:`os.rename` cannot be used. If the source is a directory, :func:`copytree` is called, passing it the :func:`copy_function`. The - default *copy_function* is :func:`copy2`. Using :func:`copy` as the + default *copy_function* is :func:`copy2`. Using :func:`~shutil.copy` as the *copy_function* allows the move to succeed when it is not possible to also copy the metadata, at the expense of not copying any of the metadata. |