[issue24609] shutil.copytree fails with symlinks to directories when symlink=False

2015-07-10 Thread Berker Peksag
Berker Peksag added the comment: Thanks for the report and the patch. This is a duplicate of issue 21697. Could you please attach the patch in that issue? -- nosy: +berker.peksag resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> shutil.copytree() handl

[issue24609] shutil.copytree fails with symlinks to directories when symlink=False

2015-07-10 Thread Thomas Kluyver
New submission from Thomas Kluyver: shutil.copytree behaves differently with symlinks depending on the 'symlinks' parameter. If this is True, symlinks are replicated in the destination. If False, the contents of the targets are copied to the destination. With symlinks=False, it currently assum