In <d0c0b3f4-ce8b-489f-9334-2b5d807f6...@es7g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Muddy
Coder <cosmo_gene...@yahoo.com> writes:
> I tried to compare two directories, each with hundreds of files in
> multiple level subdirectories, to find out the different files. I used
> filecmp module to the job as:
> comp=filecmp.dircmp(adir, bdir)
> comp.report()
> It worked, and printed out the identical and different files. However,
> it did not go through the directory trees, just did the job in the
> first level. I wonder somebody can help? Thanks in advance!
report() only prints information on the first-level contents of the two
directores, as you saw. It doesn't do subdirectories.
If you want subdirectories, use report_full_closure().
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