See bugs #975763 and #1048878.

The patch changes shutil.copytree() to use
os.makedirs() instead of os.mkdir() and to copy
directory bits using copystat(), because file bits are
copied, too.

It includes a doc change to mention these details.

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Applied on HEAD. Thanks for the patch! Log message:

Checking in Doc/lib/libshutil.tex;
/cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/lib/libshutil.tex,v  <--
 libshutil.tex
new revision: 1.16; previous revision: 1.15
done
Checking in Lib/shutil.py;
/cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Lib/shutil.py,v  <--  shutil.py
new revision: 1.35; previous revision: 1.34
done

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For files, the ctime and atime is copied, too, as part of
copystat() - directly AFTER copying the file.

But if the copystat() call for a directory is done BEFORE
filling that directory with files, the atime and mtime of
the directory will be changed by that again.

So better move the copystat call for the directory to after
the for loop.

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I see. I've moved the copystat call to after the loop in
rev. 1.36.