bpo-30974: Change os.path.samefile docstring to match docs (GH-7337)
(cherry picked from commit 8e568ef266a2805f9a6042003723d9c050830461)
Co-authored-by: Timo Furrer <tuxtimo@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Lib/genericpath.py b/Lib/genericpath.py
index 5dd703d..db11f67 100644
--- a/Lib/genericpath.py
+++ b/Lib/genericpath.py
@@ -92,7 +92,11 @@
# 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)