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Re: new to python, help please !!

From Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: new to python, help please !!
Date 2015-11-12 09:00 -0600
Message-ID <mailman.272.1447341014.16136.python-list@python.org> (permalink)
References <93aef8e5-3d6f-41f4-a625-cd3c2007686e@googlegroups.com> <20151111110655.7293d3b7@bigbox.christie.dr> <n229b9$hh9$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On 2015-11-12 15:56, Peter Otten wrote:
> Tim Chase wrote:
> 
> >   with open("file1.md5") as a, open("file2.md5") as b:
> >     for s1, s2 in zip(a, b):
> >       if s1 != s2:
> >         print("Files differ")
> 
> Note that this will not detect extra lines in one of the files.
> I recommend that you use itertools.zip_longest (izip_longest in
> Python 2) instead of the built-in zip().

Yeah, I noticed that after pushing <send> but then posted a later
version that just read chunks of the file which should catch that
file-size difference.  Or, as in that other message, prefix it with
an fstat() check to compare file-sizes so that you don't even have to
open the files if the sizes differ.

-tkc

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new to python, help please !! Anas Belemlih <anas.belemlih@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 08:34 -0800
  Re: new to python, help please !! John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-11-11 16:58 +0000
  Re: new to python, help please !! Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-11 11:06 -0600
  Re: new to python, help please !! Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-11-12 04:16 +1100
  Re: new to python, help please !! Quivis <quivis@domain.invalid> - 2015-11-11 17:48 +0000
    Re: new to python, help please !! Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-12 13:58 +1100
      Re: new to python, help please !! Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-12 08:21 +0200
        Re: new to python, help please !! Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-12 05:48 -0600
        Re: new to python, help please !! <paul.hermeneutic@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 07:27 -0700
      Re: new to python, help please !! Quivis <quivis@domain.invalid> - 2015-11-12 17:55 +0000
        Re: new to python, help please !! Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 19:49 +0000
  Re: new to python, help please !! Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-12 15:56 +0100
  Re: new to python, help please !! Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-11-12 09:00 -0600
  Re: new to python, help please !! Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-12 16:41 +0100
  Re: new to python, help please !! Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 21:24 +0000

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