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Author petri.lehtinen
Recipients orsenthil, petri.lehtinen
Date 2011-08-06.06:42:47
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As discussed in issue 12183, shutil.copytree(..., symlinks=True) should copy the metadata of symlinks instead of the metadata of the file that the symlink refers to.

This can be achieved by using os.lstat() and os.lutimes() (new in 3.3) on symlinks.
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