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| author |   Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com> | 2021-02-12 21:57:12 -0700 |
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| committer |   GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-02-12 23:57:12 -0500 |
| commit | 762fe7deed34a1d5294bf82071d318c8427b4893 (patch) | |
| tree | af4c142f32ae6dfa703724c23b80dfaba89f5a12 | |
| parent | bpo-43172: readline now passes its tests when built against libedit (GH-24499) (diff) | |
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bpo-43200: Fix link to shutil.copy() in the shutil doc (GH-24505)
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/shutil.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 435787c2766..d5080da15bb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -443,8 +443,9 @@ Directory and files operations Platform-dependent efficient copy operations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Starting from Python 3.8 all functions involving a file copy (:func:`copyfile`, -:func:`copy`, :func:`copy2`, :func:`copytree`, and :func:`move`) may use +Starting from Python 3.8, all functions involving a file copy +(:func:`copyfile`, :func:`~shutil.copy`, :func:`copy2`, +:func:`copytree`, and :func:`move`) may use platform-specific "fast-copy" syscalls in order to copy the file more efficiently (see :issue:`33671`). "fast-copy" means that the copying operation occurs within the kernel, avoiding |