From 22a7b488e0fe72c51de6f036f6a03b5d191120eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:50:44 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Fix closes Issue12183 - Explain the Symlink copy behavior in shutil.copytree. Patch by Petri Lehtinen. --- Doc/library/shutil.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 1082d2a37b4..cb0a9ae9336 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