New submission from Mitchell Model <m...@acm.org>: "contains the list of files match in both directories," should have "that" before "match"
In addition I couldn't figure out from the documentation what "common" was supposed to be doing -- it sounded more like something that should be part of the result not a parameter. I had to look at the code to realize that this function ONLY compares the files listed in common -- that it doesn't compare two directories completely, but rather dir1 and dir2 are merely prefixes for the files listed in common that are to be compared. One thing that would help would be to move the paragraph about common first. Another would be to "a list of file names found in both directories" to "a list of the names of files to be compared, which must be in both directories" or something like that. ---------- assignee: tarek components: Distutils messages: 82696 nosy: MLModel, tarek severity: normal status: open title: Documentation of filecmp.compfiles missing word & possible explanation versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5363> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
