[issue43175] filecmp is not working for UTF-8 BOM file.

Eryk Sun added the comment: I'm closing this as not a bug. You showed that all of the criteria used in a non-shallow comparison are the same on your end, i.e. they're both regular files with the same reported size and the same contents. Something is going on, which is a mystery, but it's not

[issue43175] filecmp is not working for UTF-8 BOM file.

suresh added the comment: I am getting same file size and are regular files (True) as below. Could you assist on filecmp any changes required in passing the inputs. Since it returns false. Code: >>> os.chdir(r'C:\Users\suresh.n\Files') >>> open('source.css', 'rb').read() == open('destinati

[issue43175] filecmp is not working for UTF-8 BOM file.

Eryk Sun added the comment: The two files in "files.zip" have the same contents: >>> open('source.css', 'rb').read() == open('destination.css', 'rb').read() True Maybe there's something peculiar about the stat results. Check that they're both reported as regular files with the same s

[issue43175] filecmp is not working for UTF-8 BOM file.

suresh added the comment: Dear Team, Any more details are required. Kindly let me know. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue43175] filecmp is not working for UTF-8 BOM file.

suresh added the comment: Please find the below Code and attached the files, expecting true as output and getting as false: "import filecmp filecmp.clear_cache() boolfile=filecmp.cmp(r'C:\destination.css',r'C:\source.css',shallow=False) print(boolfile)" -- hgrepos: +398 Added f

[issue43175] filecmp is not working for UTF-8 BOM file.

Steve Dower added the comment: I think you copy-pasted that code snippet incorrectly, because it has mismatched quotes. Can you paste the correct code? Also, please attach both files that are not comparing equal, ideally in a ZIP file (to avoid any modifications in transit), so that we can

[issue43175] filecmp is not working for UTF-8 BOM file.

New submission from suresh : Python base package filecmp is not working properly for 'UTF-8 BOM' css files. I am using python version 3.6 and windows 10 OS. while running the below code getting as False always.However the file content are same. Code : import filecmp filecmp.clear_cache() boo