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diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 799230c..6f70206 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -101,8 +101,9 @@ Directory and files operations :func:`copy2`. If *symlinks* is true, symbolic links in the source tree are represented as - symbolic links in the new tree; if false or omitted, the contents of the - linked files are copied to the new tree. + symbolic links in the new tree, but the metadata of the original links is NOT + copied; if false or omitted, the contents and metadata of the linked files + are copied to the new tree. When *symlinks* is false, if the file pointed by the symlink doesn't exist, a exception will be added in the list of errors raised in |