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@@ -55,10 +55,9 @@ Filesystem access
directories and 0x8000 for regular files;
- *inode* is an integer corresponding to the inode of the file, and may be 0
for filesystems that don't have such a notion.
- - Some platforms may return a 4-tuple that includes the entry's *size*. For
- file entries, *size* is an integer representing the size of the file
- or -1 if unknown. Its meaning is currently undefined for directory
- entries.
+ - *size* is an integer that may be included depending on the filesystem type.
+ For file entries, *size* represents the size of the file or -1 if unknown.
+ Its meaning is currently undefined for directory entries.
.. function:: listdir([dir])