From 6b833901fe9053937c289c6371bb731c9aceb58e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 16:04:53 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-30974: Change os.path.samefile docstring to match docs (GH-7337) (cherry picked from commit 8e568ef266a2805f9a6042003723d9c050830461) Co-authored-by: Timo Furrer --- Lib/genericpath.py | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/genericpath.py b/Lib/genericpath.py index 5dd703d736c..db11f67d54c 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)