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 Library
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+- Issue #1492704: shutil.copyfile() raises a distinct SameFileError now if
+  source and destination are the same file. Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
+
 - Issue #15397: inspect.getmodulename() is now based directly on importlib
   via a new importlib.machinery.all_suffixes() API.