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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-08-04 13:03:33 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-08-04 13:03:33 -0700 |
| commit | c2593b4d06712cefcdeae93b32f88faa4772bc3a (patch) | |
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bpo-42958: Improve description of shallow= in filecmp.cmp docs (GH-27166)
Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Vandenbulcke <alexander.vandenbulcke95@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit a8dc4893d2b28827e82447326ea47759c161a722)
Co-authored-by: andrei kulakov <andrei.avk@gmail.com>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/filecmp.py b/Lib/filecmp.py index 7c47eb022c..70a4b23c98 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: |