report_full_closure() Print a comparison between a and b and common subdirectories (recursively).

report() Print (to sys.stdout) a comparison between a and b.

left_list Files and subdirectories in a, filtered by hide and ignore.

left_only Files and subdirectories only in a.

left The directory a.

funny_files Files which are in both a and b, but could not be compared.

class filecmp.dircmp(a, b, ignore=None, hide=None) Construct a new directory comparison object, to compare the directories a and b. ignore is a list of names to ignore, and defaults to filecmp.DEFAULT_IGNORES. hide is a list of names to hide, and defaults to [os.curdir, os.pardir]. The dircmp class compares files by doing shallow comparisons as described for filecmp.cmp(). The dircmp class provides the following methods: report() Print (to sys.stdout) a comparison between a and b. rep

common_funny Names in both a and b, such that the type differs between the directories, or names for which os.stat() reports an error.

common_files Files in both a and b.

common_dirs Subdirectories in both a and b.