[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-522426 ] undocumented argument in filecmp.cmpfile

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Bugs item #522426, was opened at 2002-02-25 08:05
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.2
>Status: Closed
Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Philippe Fremy (pfremy)
Assigned to: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Summary: undocumented argument in filecmp.cmpfile

Initial Comment:
The filecmp.cmpfiles function is described like 
this:

cmpfiles(dir1, dir2, common[, shallow[, 
use_statcache]]) 

The documentation doesn't point out what 
common is and I haven't been able to figure it out myself.

This is 
on my version of python (2.1 on Windows) and in the latest version.

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>Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2002-03-20 13:55

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Checked in libfilecmp.tex as 1.5.18.1 and 1.6.

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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2002-03-20 13:50

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Accepted; thanks, Neal!  Please check in for the trunk, &
the 2.2.1 branch if you have a checkout.  (Otherwise, mwh
needs to do that. ;-)

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Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2002-03-20 13:37

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Attached is a patch from the docstring.

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