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| author |   Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-02-12 21:06:50 -0800 |
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| committer |   GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-02-12 21:06:50 -0800 |
| commit | 4230bd52e3f9f289f02e41ab17a95f50ed4db5a6 (patch) | |
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| parent | [3.8] bpo-41824: Fix indentation issue in ForwardRef docs (#24495) (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>
(cherry picked from commit 762fe7deed34a1d5294bf82071d318c8427b4893)
Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/shutil.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 578fcc6e293..cd925a92a53 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -440,8 +440,9 @@ 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 |