From 4885f49e7fcef35ad25c50f4c6876c56e2a9f545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 11:11:01 -0500
Subject: whatsnew: filecmp.clear_cache, and reword description of cache in
 docs.

---
 Lib/filecmp.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Lib/filecmp.py')

diff --git a/Lib/filecmp.py b/Lib/filecmp.py
index 328528871a..dd5a2af46d 100644
--- a/Lib/filecmp.py
+++ b/Lib/filecmp.py
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ def cmp(f1, f2, shallow=True):
     True if the files are the same, False otherwise.
 
     This function uses a cache for past comparisons and the results,
-    with a cache invalidation mechanism relying on stale signatures
-    or by explicitly calling clear_cache().
+    with cache entries invalidated if their stat information
+    changes.  The cache may be cleared by calling clear_cache().
 
     """
 
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