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diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 88c5f62..174b7e8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ Directory and files operations However, this functionality is not available on all platforms. On platforms where some or all of this functionality is unavailable, :func:`copy2` will preserve all the metadata - it can; :func:`copy2` never returns failure. + it can; :func:`copy2` never raises an exception because it + cannot preserve file metadata. :func:`copy2` uses :func:`copystat` to copy the file metadata. Please see :func:`copystat` for more information |