29368584d2
clarify behavior of shutil.move when destination exists ( closes #22933 )
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Patch by Mike Short.
2015-03-22 10:11:54 -04:00
1625d88709
Issue #16341 : convert examples to use except ... as ... syntax.
2012-10-30 21:56:43 +02:00
e58ce01f30
#14804 : Remove [] around optional arguments with default values
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Mostly just mechanical removal of []. In some rare cases I've pulled the
default value up into the argument list.
2012-05-22 10:27:40 +02:00
c446ce78b8
Document that shutil.make_archive does not typecheck its logger argument
2012-02-26 01:33:49 +01:00
c3cc2acb09
Improve interlinking of archiving/compression modules docs.
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- Remove duplicate list of links to the other modules from each
module’s doc (people can already go up to library/archiving and
there they can see the list).
- Link to shutil high-level operations.
Reviewed by Nadeem Vawda in #6715 .
2012-02-26 01:10:14 +01:00
ef18737b7f
shutil copy module reference doc fix.
2012-02-13 23:17:45 +08:00
99c4c340e6
Add missing documentation for logger argument of shutil.make_archive
2011-08-19 02:51:17 +02:00
29a0b57e4e
Backport source links from 3.x.
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Existing links have been updated to use the new reST role. In some
files, I have also made cosmetic changes to the header.
2011-08-19 02:14:03 +02:00
22a7b488e0
Fix closes Issue12183 - Explain the Symlink copy behavior in shutil.copytree. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
2011-08-02 18:50:44 +08:00
d01aebe3d6
Update documentation for shutil.move ( #12043 ) and fix a few typos.
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Adding Sandro Tosi to Doc/ACKS for this patch and all his work on the
docs mailing list and on the bug tracker.
2011-07-29 12:10:53 +02:00
60bf489e8a
merge from 3.2 - Fix closes issue12577 - clarify shutil.move documentation. Patch suggestion by Catalin Iacob
2011-07-19 08:05:44 +08:00
e0e082281e
Add more links to Python sources where the code is short, readable and an informative adjunct to the docs.
2010-11-06 07:10:31 +00:00
e593fad81b
removed ztar support in shutil.make_archive
2010-04-20 21:09:06 +00:00
8a12f940fe
Fixed #8463 : added missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
2010-04-19 21:28:21 +00:00
48cc8dc958
added make_archive (and secondary APIs) to shutil
2010-02-23 05:16:41 +00:00
c1edec3374
Use the preferred form of raise statements in the docs.
2009-06-03 07:25:35 +00:00
c62ef8b4d9
Remove trailing whitespace.
2009-01-03 20:55:06 +00:00
d729aada6a
specify how things are copied
2008-12-09 02:03:03 +00:00
905e0f65ba
#4478 : document that copyfile() can raise Error.
2008-12-05 15:32:29 +00:00
9af9498c6e
Remove things specific to the old Macintosh, and spell "Mac OS X" consistently.
2008-09-13 17:41:16 +00:00
c40608491c
Wording fix
2008-07-06 17:43:16 +00:00
e78fbcce3e
#2663 : support an *ignore* argument to shutil.copytree(). Patch by Tarek Ziade.
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This is a new feature, but Barry authorized adding it in the beta period.
2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00:00
88107dafef
#2845 : fix copy2's docs.
2008-05-16 13:18:50 +00:00
786ead684a
#2369 : clarify that copyfile() doesn't take a target directory.
2008-04-19 16:57:43 +00:00
5235398323
#1669 : don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink.
2008-01-20 14:17:42 +00:00
ec32b6bce7
#1559684 : document that shutil.copy* doesn't copy all metadata on Posix and Windows too.
2008-01-06 16:12:39 +00:00
b19be571e0
Some cleanup in the docs.
2007-12-29 10:57:00 +00:00
ac3d429edc
Added more file-handling related cross-references.
2007-11-02 08:24:59 +00:00
bf863b17f0
Replace "Caveat" paragraphs by .. warning::s.
2007-08-15 19:06:04 +00:00
8ec7f65613
Move the 2.6 reST doc tree in place.
2007-08-15 14:28:01 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson
Andrew Svetlov
Hynek Schlawack
Éric Araujo
Senthil Kumaran
Raymond Hettinger
Tarek Ziadé
Georg Brandl
Andrew M. Kuchling
Mark Summerfield