I personally dont think this is worth investing the time for a discussion.
If the maintainers dont want to accept this or a minor variation without a
discussion ill just keep my local monkeypatch :)  thanks again for the
quick patch Elias!
On Mar 8, 2014 4:03 PM, "Elias Zamaria" <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Elias Zamaria added the comment:
>
> I am not sure. I am not on the python-ideas mailing list, and I am not sure
> what adding and maintaining the discussion would entail, or if I would have
> the time to do it or want to deal with the clutter in my inbox. I just
> committed this patch because it seemed like it would be quick and easy.
>
> I can start the discussion if anyone specifically wants me to, but I don't
> want to let anyone down.
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Éric Araujo <report@bugs.python.org>
> wrote:
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> >
> > Éric Araujo added the comment:
> >
> > Contrary to makedirs, there could be two interpretations for exist_ok in
> > copytree: a) if a directory or file already exists in the destination,
> > ignore it and go ahead  b) only do that for directories.
> >
> > The proposed patch does b), but the cp tool does a).  It's not clear to
> me
> > which is best.  Can you start a discussion on the python-ideas mailing
> list?
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