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bpo-43200: Fix link to shutil.copy() in the shutil doc (GH-24505)

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Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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@ -443,8 +443,9 @@ Directory and files operations
Platform-dependent efficient copy operations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Starting from Python 3.8 all functions involving a file copy (:func:`copyfile`,
:func:`copy`, :func:`copy2`, :func:`copytree`, and :func:`move`) may use
Starting from Python 3.8, all functions involving a file copy
(:func:`copyfile`, :func:`~shutil.copy`, :func:`copy2`,
:func:`copytree`, and :func:`move`) may use
platform-specific "fast-copy" syscalls in order to copy the file more
efficiently (see :issue:`33671`).
"fast-copy" means that the copying operation occurs within the kernel, avoiding