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Author takluyver
Recipients rst0py, takluyver
Date 2017-12-08.10:46:27
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This is documented:

>  The destination directory, named by dst, must not already exist

https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html#shutil.copytree

I guess that avoids complications that might arise from merging a directory.
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