From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 10:50:44 +0000 (+0800) Subject: Fix closes Issue12183 - Explain the Symlink copy behavior in shutil.copytree. Patch... X-Git-Tag: v2.7.3rc1~545 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22a7b488e0fe72c51de6f036f6a03b5d191120eb;p=python Fix closes Issue12183 - Explain the Symlink copy behavior in shutil.copytree. Patch by Petri Lehtinen. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 1082d2a37b..cb0a9ae933 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -105,8 +105,9 @@ 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. If *ignore* is given, it must be a callable that will receive as its arguments the directory being visited by :func:`copytree`, and a list of its