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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/filecmp.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/filecmp.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/filecmp.py b/Lib/filecmp.py index 7c47eb0..70a4b23 100644 --- a/Lib/filecmp.py +++ b/Lib/filecmp.py @@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ def cmp(f1, f2, shallow=True): f2 -- Second file name - shallow -- Just check stat signature (do not read the files). - defaults to True. + shallow -- treat files as identical if their stat signatures (type, size, + mtime) are identical. Otherwise, files are considered different + if their sizes or contents differ. [default: True] Return value: |