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added a note about the ignore_dangling_symlinks option
author Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>
date Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:03:50 +0000
parents c2905b0ef1d2
children a43776553ab5
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--- a/Lib/shutil.py	Fri Apr 23 13:03:09 2010 +0000
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py	Fri Apr 23 13:03:50 2010 +0000
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@
     an Error exception at the end of the copy process.
 
     You can set the optional ignore_dangling_symlinks flag to true if you
-    want to silence this exception.
-
+    want to silence this exception. Notice that this has no effect on
+    platforms that don't support os.symlink.
 
     The optional ignore argument is a callable. If given, it
     is called with the `src` parameter, which is the directory