New submission from Tilman Vogel <tilman.vo...@gmail.com>:
I donot understand this sentence:
"dirs_exist_ok dictates whether to raise an exception in case dst or any
missing parent directory already exists."
How can a "missing parent directory already exist"?
My understanding would be that an existing `dst` would be OK (and copied into)
but missing parent directories are just the ones above `dst` that also don't
exist.
Until 3.7, missing parent directories were documented to be auto-created
(`mkdir -p`-style) according to the documentation ("The destination directory,
named by dst, must not already exist; it will be created as well as missing
parent directories."). Was this feature really removed? If not, then this part
was accidentally (?) dropped from documentation?
What am I missing? I think, the documentation should be amended to make that
clear.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 395315
nosy: docs@python, tilman.vogel
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unclear documentation for shutil.copytree()
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9
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