The dircmp module

(Obsolete, only in 1.5.2). This module provides a class that can be used to compare the contents of two disk directories.

Example: Using the dircmp module

# File: dircmp-example-1.py

import dircmp

d = dircmp.dircmp()
d.new("samples", "oldsamples")
d.run()
d.report()

$ python dircmp-example-1.py
diff samples oldsamples
Only in samples : ['sample.aiff', 'sample.au', 'sample.wav']
Identical files : ['sample.gif', 'sample.gz', 'sample.jpg', ...]

In Python 2.0 and later, this module has been replaced by the filecmp module.

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