From 762fe7deed34a1d5294bf82071d318c8427b4893 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zackery Spytz Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:57:12 -0700 Subject: bpo-43200: Fix link to shutil.copy() in the shutil doc (GH-24505) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy --- Doc/library/shutil.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad