[Python-checkins] bpo-30974: Change os.path.samefile docstring to match docs (GH-7337)

Steve Dower webhook-mailer at python.org
Fri Aug 2 18:44:28 EDT 2019


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8e568ef266a2805f9a6042003723d9c050830461
commit: 8e568ef266a2805f9a6042003723d9c050830461
branch: master
author: Timo Furrer <tuxtimo at gmail.com>
committer: Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org>
date: 2019-08-02T15:44:25-07:00
summary:

bpo-30974: Change os.path.samefile docstring to match docs (GH-7337)

files:
M Lib/genericpath.py

diff --git a/Lib/genericpath.py b/Lib/genericpath.py
index 5dd703d736c5..db11f67d54cc 100644
--- a/Lib/genericpath.py
+++ b/Lib/genericpath.py
@@ -92,7 +92,11 @@ def samestat(s1, s2):
 
 # Are two filenames really pointing to the same file?
 def samefile(f1, f2):
-    """Test whether two pathnames reference the same actual file"""
+    """Test whether two pathnames reference the same actual file or directory
+
+    This is determined by the device number and i-node number and
+    raises an exception if an os.stat() call on either pathname fails.
+    """
     s1 = os.stat(f1)
     s2 = os.stat(f2)
     return samestat(s1, s2)



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