filecmp_cmp.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# encoding: utf-8
#
# Copyright (c) 2008 Doug Hellmann All rights reserved.
#
"""Compare two files.
"""

#end_pymotw_header
import filecmp

print('common_file    :', end=' ')
print(filecmp.cmp('example/dir1/common_file',
                  'example/dir2/common_file',
                  shallow=True),
      end=' ')
print(filecmp.cmp('example/dir1/common_file',
                  'example/dir2/common_file',
                  shallow=False))

print('contents_differ:', end=' ')
print(filecmp.cmp('example/dir1/contents_differ',
                  'example/dir2/contents_differ',
                  shallow=True),
      end=' ')
print(filecmp.cmp('example/dir1/contents_differ',
                  'example/dir2/contents_differ',
                  shallow=False))

print('identical      :', end=' ')
print(filecmp.cmp('example/dir1/file_only_in_dir1',
                  'example/dir1/file_only_in_dir1',
                  shallow=True),
      end=' ')
print(filecmp.cmp('example/dir1/file_only_in_dir1',
                  'example/dir1/file_only_in_dir1',
                  shallow=False))