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diff --git a/Doc/library/filecmp.rst b/Doc/library/filecmp.rst index 8a88f8c..e5ffefb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/filecmp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/filecmp.rst @@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ The :class:`dircmp` class .. class:: dircmp(a, b, ignore=None, hide=None) - Construct a new directory comparison object, to compare the directories *a* and - *b*. *ignore* is a list of names to ignore, and defaults to ``['RCS', 'CVS', - 'tags']``. *hide* is a list of names to hide, and defaults to ``[os.curdir, - os.pardir]``. + Construct a new directory comparison object, to compare the directories *a* + and *b*. *ignore* is a list of names to ignore, and defaults to + :attr:`filecmp.DEFAULT_IGNORES`. *hide* is a list of names to hide, and + defaults to ``[os.curdir, os.pardir]``. The :class:`dircmp` class compares files by doing *shallow* comparisons as described for :func:`filecmp.cmp`. @@ -164,6 +164,12 @@ The :class:`dircmp` class A dictionary mapping names in :attr:`common_dirs` to :class:`dircmp` objects. +.. attribute:: DEFAULT_IGNORES + + .. versionadded:: 3.4 + + List of directories ignored by :class:`dircmp` by default. + Here is a simplified example of using the ``subdirs`` attribute to search recursively through two directories to show common different files:: |