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Fix closes Issue12183 - Explain the Symlink copy behavior in shutil.copytree. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
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:func:`copy2`.
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If *symlinks* is true, symbolic links in the source tree are represented as
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If *symlinks* is true, symbolic links in the source tree are represented as
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symbolic links in the new tree; if false or omitted, the contents of the
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symbolic links in the new tree, but the metadata of the original links is NOT
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linked files are copied to the new tree.
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copied; if false or omitted, the contents and metadata of the linked files
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are copied to the new tree.
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When *symlinks* is false, if the file pointed by the symlink doesn't
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When *symlinks* is false, if the file pointed by the symlink doesn't
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exist, a exception will be added in the list of errors raised in
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exist, a exception will be added in the list of errors raised in
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