return-value of filecmp.dircmp.report_*

[picibucor]

BPO	30970
Nosy	@bitdancer, @picibucor
PRs	return-value of filecmp.dircmp.report_* #2762

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closed_at = <Date 2017-07-19.14:16:04.816>
created_at = <Date 2017-07-19.12:58:48.870>
labels = ['type-feature', '3.7']
title = 'return-value of filecmp.dircmp.report_*'
updated_at = <Date 2017-07-19.14:16:04.814>
user = 'https://github.com/picibucor'

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creation = <Date 2017-07-19.12:58:48.870>
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue30970'
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[picibucor]

The functions:
filecmp.dircmp.report()
filecmp.dircmp.report_partial_closure()
filecmp.dircmp.report_full_closure()

do not have return values

[bitdancer]

Thanks for wanting to improve Python. However, the purpose of those function is to *print* the result. They intentionally do not have return values.

All of the values that you would have these functions return are accessible via attributes already.