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gh-105919 fix shutil.copytree() failing to override existing symbolic links #106893

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fix shutil.copytree() failing to override existing symbolic links
0000matteo0000 Jul 19, 2023
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions Lib/shutil.py
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Expand Up @@ -589,6 +589,8 @@ def _copytree(entries, src, dst, symlinks, ignore, copy_function,
# We can't just leave it to `copy_function` because legacy
# code with a custom `copy_function` may rely on copytree
# doing the right thing.
if dirs_exist_ok and os.path.lexists(dstname):
os.unlink(dstname)
os.symlink(linkto, dstname)
copystat(srcobj, dstname, follow_symlinks=not symlinks)
else:
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fixed shutil.copytree(), now it overrides existing symbolic links correctly
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