How do I compare files?

[Timothy Grant]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Clay Hobbs <clay at lakeserv.net> wrote:

> I am making a program that (with urllib) that downloads two jpeg files
> and, if they are different, displays the new one.  I need to find a way
> to compare two files in Python.  How is this done?
>
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I'd start with file sizes.

If that's not enough you might look at the md5 library and check the md5
values for the files.

-- 
Stand Fast,
tjg. [Timothy Grant]
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