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opened on Jul 15, 2025

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Unless I am in some way confused, that statement is incorrect. The function only accepts stat objects.

cpython/Lib/genericpath.py

Lines 121 to 126 in 624bf52

# Are two stat buffers (obtained from stat, fstat or lstat)
# describing the same file?
def samestat(s1, s2):
"""Test whether two stat buffers reference the same file"""
return (s1.st_ino == s2.st_ino and
s1.st_dev == s2.st_dev)

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