From 54116959056559c32fada45fd9b543e6563bb194 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Chekunkov <chekunkov@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:44:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] removed request_fingerprint method from BaseDupeFilter,
 removed unnecessary docstring

---
 scrapy/dupefilter.py | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/dupefilter.py b/scrapy/dupefilter.py
index 7e4bf3153..98abef032 100644
--- a/scrapy/dupefilter.py
+++ b/scrapy/dupefilter.py
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ class BaseDupeFilter(object):
     def request_seen(self, request):
         return False
 
-    def request_fingerprint(self, request):
-        pass
-
     def open(self):  # can return deferred
         pass
 
@@ -52,9 +49,6 @@ class RFPDupeFilter(BaseDupeFilter):
             self.file.write(fp + os.linesep)
 
     def request_fingerprint(self, request):
-        """Override this method to implement a different duplicate check.
-
-        """
         return request_fingerprint(request)
 
     def close(self, reason):