[Python-checkins] bpo-41646: Mention path-like objects support in the docs for shutil.copy() (GH-22208)

Wed Oct 21 01:16:51 EDT 2020

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/19019eccdeeb8dea027bd7766ca9fe2892972da4
commit: 19019eccdeeb8dea027bd7766ca9fe2892972da4
branch: 3.9
author: Miss Skeleton (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: methane <songofacandy at gmail.com>
date: 2020年10月21日T14:16:42+09:00
summary:
bpo-41646: Mention path-like objects support in the docs for shutil.copy() (GH-22208)
(cherry picked from commit 8f2b991eef062c22c429a96983c78be007180b66)
Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz at gmail.com>
files:
M Doc/library/shutil.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
index fd3ce7445b511..3f5122760ee16 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ Directory and files operations
 .. function:: copy(src, dst, *, follow_symlinks=True)
 
 Copies the file *src* to the file or directory *dst*. *src* and *dst*
- should be strings. If *dst* specifies a directory, the file will be
- copied into *dst* using the base filename from *src*. Returns the
- path to the newly created file.
+ should be :term:`path-like objects <path-like object>` or strings. If
+ *dst* specifies a directory, the file will be copied into *dst* using the
+ base filename from *src*. Returns the path to the newly created file.
 
 If *follow_symlinks* is false, and *src* is a symbolic link,
 *dst* will be created as a symbolic link. If *follow_symlinks*
