From: Miss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 05:16:21 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-41646: Mention path-like objects support in the docs for shutil.copy() (GH-22208) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.7rc1~89 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6443a8ccc886749f5e83a8ca073006742b605d90;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-41646: Mention path-like objects support in the docs for shutil.copy() (GH-22208) (cherry picked from commit 8f2b991eef062c22c429a96983c78be007180b66) Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz --- diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 00c7d1049e6a..b5eeec85fb85 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ Directory and files operations .. function:: copy(src, dst, *, follow_symlinks=True) Copies the file *src* to the file or directory *dst*. *src* and *dst* - should be strings. If *dst* specifies a directory, the file will be - copied into *dst* using the base filename from *src*. Returns the - path to the newly created file. + should be :term:`path-like objects ` or strings. If + *dst* specifies a directory, the file will be copied into *dst* using the + base filename from *src*. Returns the path to the newly created file. If *follow_symlinks* is false, and *src* is a symbolic link, *dst* will be created as a symbolic link. If *follow_symlinks*