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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/filecmp.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/filecmp.rst b/Doc/library/filecmp.rst index dfe4b7c..42d20b9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/filecmp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/filecmp.rst @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ The :mod:`filecmp` module defines the following functions: The :class:`dircmp` class ------------------------- -.. class:: dircmp(a, b, ignore=None, hide=None) +.. class:: dircmp(a, b, ignore=None, hide=None, shallow=True) Construct a new directory comparison object, to compare the directories *a* and *b*. *ignore* is a list of names to ignore, and defaults to @@ -78,7 +78,12 @@ The :class:`dircmp` class defaults to ``[os.curdir, os.pardir]``. The :class:`dircmp` class compares files by doing *shallow* comparisons - as described for :func:`filecmp.cmp`. + as described for :func:`filecmp.cmp` by default using the *shallow* + parameter. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.13 + + Added the *shallow* parameter. The :class:`dircmp` class provides the following methods: |