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Author	orsenthil
Recipients	docs@python, orsenthil, petri.lehtinen, rosslagerwall, socketpair, tarek
Date	2011-07-30.15:37:59
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Message-id	<1312040280.03.0.299305836969.issue12183@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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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.

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.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2011-07-30 15:38:00	orsenthil	set	recipients: + orsenthil, tarek, docs@python, rosslagerwall, socketpair, petri.lehtinen
2011-07-30 15:38:00	orsenthil	set	messageid: <1312040280.03.0.299305836969.issue12183@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-07-30 15:37:59	orsenthil	link	issue12183 messages
2011-07-30 15:37:59	orsenthil	create