improve discoverability with a
docs reference.
This is a great idea — I suggest a PR would be in order, and the good news is that a doc addition could be back-ported to all supported versions. However, I don’t agree that copy does not belong on pathlib. I get the point, but practically beats purity and all that. I think there is an active effort to make pathlib more full featured and perhaps make shutils redundant. I don’t know the status, but I don’t think it’s been rejected. I suggest you try to find that discussion and join in. I’d look in the archives of this list, gitHub issues, and of course discuss.python.org, which is where much (most) of these kinds of discussion have moved. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython