[issue41134] distutils.dir_util.copy_tree FileExistsError when updating symlinks

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[issue41134] distutils.dir_util.copy_tree FileExistsError when updating symlinks

Change by Irit Katriel : -- components: +Distutils nosy: +dstufft, eric.araujo type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-

[issue41134] distutils.dir_util.copy_tree FileExistsError when updating symlinks

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- dependencies: +Add race-free os.link and os.symlink wrapper / helper versions: +Python 3.10 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue41134] distutils.dir_util.copy_tree FileExistsError when updating symlinks

Change by Tom Hale : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +20651 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14464 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue41134] distutils.dir_util.copy_tree FileExistsError when updating symlinks

New submission from Tom Hale : Here is a minimal test case: == #!/bin/bash cd /tmp || exit 1 dir=test-copy_tree src=$dir/src dst=$dir/dst mkdir -p "$src" touch "$src"/file ln -s file "$src/symlink" python -c "from distutils.dir_util im