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Author eric.araujo
Recipients docs@python, eli.bendersky, eric.araujo, fdrake, sandro.tosi
Date 2011-07-04.14:04:29
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-   If *symlinks* is true, symbolic links in the source tree are
+   If *symlinks* is ``True``, symbolic links in the source tree are

I’m not sure about that change.  It may be on purpose that lower-case true is used, given that the code will accept anything that evaluates to True in a boolean context, but does not strictly requires a bool instance.

See also #7969 for another shutil doc bug.
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