[Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): Fix closes Issue12183 - Explain the Symlink copy behavior in shutil.copytree.

[senthil.kumaran]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/299992730c87
changeset:   71691:299992730c87
branch:      3.2
parent:      71688:1013c9fbd83c
user:        Senthil Kumaran <senthil at uthcode.com>
date:        Tue Aug 02 18:52:28 2011 +0800
summary:
  Fix closes Issue12183 - Explain the Symlink copy behavior in shutil.copytree. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.

files:
  Doc/library/shutil.rst |  5 +++--
  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -101,8 +101,9 @@
    :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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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython