shallow defaults to 'True' not '1' (closes #21355)

Patch by Diana Clarke.

diff --git a/Lib/filecmp.py b/Lib/filecmp.py
index dd5a2af46d412e8929e83cb047458d581e04f5bf..e5ad8397e4c53956c1503d8abba134015da0a24f 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/filecmp.py
+++ b/Lib/filecmp.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def cmp(f1, f2, shallow=True):
     f2 -- Second file name
 
     shallow -- Just check stat signature (do not read the files).
-               defaults to 1.
+               defaults to True.
 
     Return value: