adding a simulation mode

[John Gordon]

In <mailman.2043.1342102625.4697.python-list at python.org> andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> writes:

> Well that's what I thought, but I can't find any explicit exit
> anywhere in shutil, so what's going on there?

Try catching SystemExit specifically (it doesn't inherit from Exception,
so "except Exception" won't catch it.)

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