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 Library
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+- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
+  error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
+
 - Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
   Contributed by Google.