Senthil Kumaran <sent...@uthcode.com> added the comment: When shutil.copy2 already says that it's behavior is equivalent to cp -p, will adding this sentence
+ Symbolic links are not preserved. The contents and metadata of the + linked files are copied instead. Not actively confuse the user? Because cp -p's behavior includes that and I dont see a special mention without giving more details is going to help. The other portion of the patch seems okay to me. ---------- nosy: +orsenthil _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12183> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
