so i am trying to add md5 checksum calc to my file copy stuff, to make sure the source and dest. are same file. i implemented it fine with the single file copy part. something like : for files in sourcepath: f1=file(files ,'rb') try: shutil.copy2(files, os.path.join(destpath,os.path.basename(files))) except: print "error file" f2=file(os.path.join(destpath,os.path.basename(files)), 'rb') truth = md5.new(f1.read()).digest() == md5.new(f2.read()).digest() if truth == 0: print "file copy error"
this worked swimmingly. i moved on to my backupall function, something like for (path, dirs, files) in os.walk(source): #os.walk drills down thru all the folders of source for fname in dirs: currentdir = destination+leftover try: os.mkdir(os.path.join(currentdir,fname),0755) except: print "error folder" for fname in files: leftover = path.replace(source, '') currentdir = destination+leftover f1=file(files ,'rb') try: shutil.copy2(os.path.join(path,fname), os.path.join(currentdir,fname)) f2 = file(os.path.join(currentdir,fname,files)) except: print "error file" truth = md5.new(f1.read()).digest() == md5.new(f2.read()).digest() if truth == 0: print "file copy error" but here, "fname" is a list, not a single file.i didn't really want to spend a lot of time on the md5 part. thought it would be an easy add- on. i don't really want to write the file names out to a list and parse through them one a time doing the calc, but it sounds like i will have to do something like that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list