Stavros Macrakis <macra...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I agree completely that the documentation should be more explicit. The concept of "os.stat signature" is not defined anywhere as far as I can tell. The naive reader (like me) might mistakenly assume that the "os.stat signature" is a "digital signature" (i.e. a hash) of all of os.stat, and in particular that it includes the st_ino. I would suggest that the documentation be updated to read "If shallow is true, files with the same length, modification time, and mode are taken to be equal." ---------- nosy: +macrakis _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33896> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
