error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.

inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
"src.new").

This is a new feature, but Barry authorized adding it in the beta period.

copy, now it is doing a os.rename() if it's on the same file-system.

functions on platforms where the underlying system calls are available.

Fixes #1525866.

them to the Error errors list.

copying files inside the directory, as that loop changes the atime and
mtime.

* Use os.makedirs() instead os.mkdir(). (bug #975763)
* Use copystat() to copy directory bits (bug #1048878)

Rewrite rmtree again, this time without os.walk(). Error handling had been
broken since Python 2.3, and the os.walk() version inherited this.

The shutils.rmtree() implementation uses an excessive amount of memory when
deleting large directory hierarchies. Before actually deleting any files, it
builds up a list of (function, filename) tuples for all the files that it is
going to remove.

exist.

symbolic link (bug #851123 / patch #854853, thanks Gregory Ball).

  the documented behavior: the function passed to the onerror()
  handler can now also be os.listdir.

[I could've sworn I checked this in, but apparently I didn't, or it
got lost???]

itself.

Closes bug #919012  .  Thanks Johannes Gijsbers.

Also use True/False instead of 1/0 for symlink flag.

docstring).  Even if ignore_errors was true, an exception would occur
if path didn't exist.

- improved readability of rmtree; removed silly apply()

the same.   Added check to verify the two names are not the same.  Does not
check the actual files to see if there is a symbolic link.

Closes SF bug 490165 and Tzot's patch 604600.

equivalent attributes in a few more spots.

This closes SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/562373

also modified check_all function to suppress all warnings since they aren't
relevant to what this test is doing (allows quiet checking of regsub, for
instance)

    refactor the copying of file data. new: shutil.copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst)

The copytree function doesn't pass the symlinks parameter in recursicve
calls

The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.

A new docstring was added to formatter.  The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.

the data fork *is* copied).

Discovered by Mitch Chapman.

This doesn't make a bit of difference on Unix, but apparently on
Windows NT you need write permission before you can set the utime...