On Feb 26, 10:53 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 26, 10:22 pm, "Dan Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Feb 26, 10:09 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > i have 2 files which are different (1 line difference): > > > $ diff groupresult20070226190027.xml groupresult20070226190027-2.xml > > > 5c5 > > > < x:22 y:516 w:740 h:120 area: > > > --- > > > > > x:22 y:516 w:740 h:1202 area: > > > > But when I use the cmp() function to compare 2 files, it return "1", > > > > $ python Python 2.4.3 (#1, Oct 23 2006, 14:19:47) > > > [GCC 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)] on linux2 > > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> > > > cmp("groupresult20070226190027.xml", "groupresult20070226190027-2.xml") > > > > 1 > > > > Can you please tell me why? > > > Because '.' > '-' (character 25 of each string). > > > But this is comparing the filenames, which isn't what you want to do. > > > > And how can I compare the content of 2 > > > files in python? > > > Use the difflib module. >
I try this: f1 = open("f1",'r') f2 = open("f2", 'r') if (difflib.context_diff(f1.readlines(), f2.readlines()).len() == 0): But I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./scripts/regressionTest.py", line 72, in ? runTest(savedPagesDirectory, outputDir, expectedResultDir, failedDir); File "./scripts/regressionTest.py", line 60, in runTest getSnapShot(fileName, testNo, outputDir, expectedResultDir, failedDir) File "./scripts/regressionTest.py", line 30, in getSnapShot if (difflib.context_diff(f1.readlines(), f2.readlines()).len() == 0): # no difference else: # files are different AttributeError: 'generator' object has no attribute 'len' Can you please help? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list