Commit ef5c7161 authored by Senthil Kumaran's avatar Senthil Kumaran

Fix closes Issue12183 - Explain the Symlink copy behavior in shutil.copytree....

Fix closes Issue12183 - Explain the Symlink copy behavior in shutil.copytree. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
parent eb71ad4c
......@@ -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
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