From: Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:13:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: added a note on shutil.copytree improvements
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a1~1092
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7aa6da05095349a894dca18ab304a22d692707d2;p=python

added a note on shutil.copytree improvements
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index a8b2fe4a73..1a7d08016d 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
   (Contributed by Georg Brandl and Mattias Brändström;
   `appspot issue 53094 <http://codereview.appspot.com/53094>`_.)
 
+* The :func:`shutil.copytree` function has two new options
+
+  * ignore_dangling_symlinks: when symlinks=false (meaning that the function
+    copy the file pointed by the symlink, not the symlink itself)
+    this option will silent the error thrown if the file doesn't exists.
+
+  * copy_function: a callable that will be used to copy files.
+    :func:`shutil.copy2` is used by default.
+
+  (Contributed by Tarek Ziade)
+
 Multi-threading
 ===============