On 2009-04-13, SpreadTooThin <bjobrie...@gmail.com> 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.
Perhaps I'm being dim, but how else are you going to decide if
two files are the same unless you compare the bytes in the
files?
You could hash them and compare the hashes, but that's a lot
more work than just comparing the two byte streams.
> What should I be using if not filecmp.cmp?
I don't understand what you've got against comparing the files
when you stated that what you wanted to do was compare the files.
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