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bpo-26468: Doc: improve the documentation of shutil.copy2 when it can fail. (GH-13765)
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Doc/library/shutil.rst

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However, this functionality is not available on all platforms.
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On platforms where some or all of this functionality is
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unavailable, :func:`copy2` will preserve all the metadata
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it can; :func:`copy2` never returns failure.
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it can; :func:`copy2` never raises an exception because it
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cannot preserve file metadata.
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:func:`copy2` uses :func:`copystat` to copy the file metadata.
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Please see :func:`copystat` for more information

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