Popular recipes tagged "files" and "comparison"http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/files+comparison/2016-03-28T21:36:31-07:00ActiveState Code RecipesFile comparison utility in Python (Python)
2016-03-26T18:31:11-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580631-file-comparison-utility-in-python/
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Python
recipe 580631
by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/commandline/">commandline</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/comparison/">comparison</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/linux/">linux</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/unix/">unix</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/utilities/">utilities</a>).
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<p>This is a recipe to compare any two files via a Python command-line program.
It is like a basic version of the cmp command of Unix or the fc.exe (file compare) command of Windows.</p>
Python one-liner to compare two files (Python)
2016-03-28T21:36:31-07:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580632-python-one-liner-to-compare-two-files/
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Python
recipe 580632
by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/comparison/">comparison</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/programming/">programming</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>).
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<p>As the title says ...</p>
<p>It prints True if the files compared are the same, and False if they differ (either in size or in content).</p>