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author | 2021-02-12 21:20:24 -0800 | |
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committer | 2021-02-13 00:20:24 -0500 | |
commit | 242f6c9ffe3dd8f613942d5364b816cc89c384be (patch) | |
tree | 6b8e676061ea65681b9a37f4567b83ebf52d9131 | |
parent | bpo-43204: Fix LibTomCrypt URL in md5module.c and sha*module.c comments (GH-2... (diff) | |
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bpo-43200: Fix link to shutil.copy() in the shutil doc (GH-24505)
Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
(cherry picked from commit 762fe7deed34a1d5294bf82071d318c8427b4893)
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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 |