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Expand Up @@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ Directory and files operations
However, this functionality is not available on all platforms.
On platforms where some or all of this functionality is
unavailable, :func:`copy2` will preserve all the metadata
it can; :func:`copy2` never returns failure.
it can; :func:`copy2` never raises an exception because it
cannot preserve file metadata.

:func:`copy2` uses :func:`copystat` to copy the file metadata.
Please see :func:`copystat` for more information
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