How filecmp walk into subdirectories?

[Muddy Coder]

Hi Folks,


I tried to compare two directories, each with hundreds of files in
multiple level subdirectories, to find out the different files. I used
filecmp module to the job as:


comp=filecmp.dircmp(adir, bdir)
comp.report()

It worked, and printed out the identical and different files. However,
it did not go through the directory trees, just did the job in the
first level. I wonder somebody can help? Thanks in advance!


Cosmo

 

[John Gordon]

I tried to compare two directories, each with hundreds of files in
multiple level subdirectories, to find out the different files. I used
filecmp module to the job as:

comp=filecmp.dircmp(adir, bdir)
comp.report()

It worked, and printed out the identical and different files. However,
it did not go through the directory trees, just did the job in the
first level. I wonder somebody can help? Thanks in advance!

report() only prints information on the first-level contents of the two
directores, as you saw. It doesn't do subdirectories.

If you want subdirectories, use report_full_closure().