diff --git a/Lib/pathlib.py b/Lib/pathlib.py
index 01e66a0970b..4e219182e79 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib.py
@@ -1017,8 +1017,8 @@ class Path(PurePath):
         return cls(cls()._flavour.gethomedir(None))
 
     def samefile(self, other_path):
-        """Return whether `other_file` is the same or not as this file.
-        (as returned by os.path.samefile(file, other_file)).
+        """Return whether other_path is the same or not as this file.
+        (as returned by os.path.samefile()).
         """
         st = self.stat()
         try: