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Author TTimo
Recipients TTimo, tarek
Date 2010-04-19.23:00:34
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Message-id <1271718035.75.0.910322722106.issue6547@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I am not sure what shutil does with symlinks already. At the very least it should not abort the operation.

Ideally I feel it should create the same symlink pointing to a possibly missing file, since that's what '/bin/cp' does, and shutil.copytree is broadly understood as a drop in replacement..
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2010-04-19 23:00:35TTimosetrecipients: + TTimo, tarek
2010-04-19 23:00:35TTimosetmessageid: <1271718035.75.0.910322722106.issue6547@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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