On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:29 -0700, Matimus wrote: > On Jul 22, 4:27pm, Clay Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am making a program that (with urllib) that downloads two jpeg files > > and, if they are different, displays the new one. I need to find a way > > to compare two files in Python. How is this done? > > > > -- Ratfink > > Do you just want to check to see if they are the same? Or do you > actually want to know what the differences are? > > import urllib > > data1 = urllib.urlopen("http://url.of.jpg1").read() > data2 = urllib.urlopen("http://url.of.jpg2").read() > > if data1 == data2: > print "they are the same" >
I just wanted to see if they are different. The code I was using that didn't work was almost the same, except that the lines that download the files didn't end in .read(). Thank you for your help -- Ratfink -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list