R. David Murray added the comment:

I would take "actual file" as meaning the file the symlink points to, so I'd 
say the documentation matches the implementation according to your description 
of the two.  The current docs actually say "refer to the same file or 
directory", and mention os.stat explicitly, so again I'd say the docs and 
implementation match.

It sounds like what you want is to open a feature request for a samefile 
equivalent that does not follow symlinks.  lsamefile?

We could use this issue for making the docstring match the docs, though.  I 
think the sentence in the docs is short enough to just get copied into the 
docstring.

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assignee:  -> docs@python
components: +Documentation
nosy: +docs@python, r.david.murray
title: os.samefile / shutil._samefile: following symlinks -> Update os.samefile 
docstring to match documentation
versions: +Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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