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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 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 |