New submission from Gabriel Hackebeil:
I would like to propose changing the default setting for the shallow compare
option in filecmp.cmp to False (or providing access an exact comparison
function that does not use various performance optimizations).
I think many users will turn to this
Gabriel Hackebeil added the comment:
All good points. Perhaps further emphasis on this in the documentation would be
helpful to. As it stands, this module is a dangerous one for a naive user (like
me) to stumble across.
Maybe introducing an “exact” or “slow" diff function to the module
