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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-08-02 23:11:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-08-02 23:11:33 (GMT) |
| commit | a49f203e052c6fb1244d4e55c3fccc439dda0e2e (patch) | |
| tree | 7938e0186dc1af3c16c07f459da4df185bc4f8c7 /Lib/genericpath.py | |
| parent | 1ff7dd681c7f3e31524bfada6d6d2786d4e37704 (diff) | |
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bpo-30974: Change os.path.samefile docstring to match docs (GH-7337)
(cherry picked from commit 8e568ef266a2805f9a6042003723d9c050830461)
Co-authored-by: Timo Furrer <tuxtimo@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Lib/genericpath.py b/Lib/genericpath.py index 303b3b3..85f4a57 100644 --- a/Lib/genericpath.py +++ b/Lib/genericpath.py @@ -92,7 +92,11 @@ def samestat(s1, s2): # Are two filenames really pointing to the same file? def samefile(f1, f2): - """Test whether two pathnames reference the same actual file""" + """Test whether two pathnames reference the same actual file or directory + + This is determined by the device number and i-node number and + raises an exception if an os.stat() call on either pathname fails. + """ s1 = os.stat(f1) s2 = os.stat(f2) return samestat(s1, s2) |