From: Mariatta Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 03:36:52 +0000 (-0800) Subject: bpo-29784: Fix the reference to shutil.copy in the docs (GH-602) (GH-609) X-Git-Tag: v3.5.4rc1~287 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=518d8fcb89896dd30fbf11c667ee4e6b509e4dd9;p=python bpo-29784: Fix the reference to shutil.copy in the docs (GH-602) (GH-609) (cherry picked from commit 70ee0cd5c2a3dba82cb8e0c0742c012f9134c040) --- diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index b020bb31c8..358081137a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Directory and files operations is true and *src* is a symbolic link, *dst* will be a copy of the file *src* refers to. - :func:`copy` copies the file data and the file's permission + :func:`~shutil.copy` copies the file data and the file's permission mode (see :func:`os.chmod`). Other metadata, like the file's creation and modification times, is not preserved. To preserve all file metadata from the original, use @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ Directory and files operations *src* and *dst*, and will be used to copy *src* to *dest* if :func:`os.rename` cannot be used. If the source is a directory, :func:`copytree` is called, passing it the :func:`copy_function`. The - default *copy_function* is :func:`copy2`. Using :func:`copy` as the + default *copy_function* is :func:`copy2`. Using :func:`~shutil.copy` as the *copy_function* allows the move to succeed when it is not possible to also copy the metadata, at the expense of not copying any of the metadata.