On Apr 13, 2:00 pm, Przemyslaw Kaminski <cge...@gmail.com> wrote: > SpreadTooThin wrote: > > I want to compare two binary files and see if they are the same. > > I see the filecmp.cmp function but I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling > > that it is doing a byte by byte comparison of two files to see if they > > are they same. > > > What should I be using if not filecmp.cmp? > > Well, here's somethinghttp://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread115959.html > but it seems from the post on the bottom that filecmp does comparison of > binary files.
I just want to be clear, the comparison is not just based on file size and creation date but by a byte by byte comparison of the data in each file. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list