dircmp instances are built using this constructor:
classdircmp(
a, b[, ignore[, hide]])
Construct a new directory comparison object, to compare the
directories a and b. ignore is a list of names to
ignore, and defaults to ['RCS', 'CVS', 'tags']. hide is a
list of names to hide, and defaults to [os.curdir, os.pardir].
The dircmp class provides the following methods:
report(
)
Print (to sys.stdout) a comparison between a and b.
report_partial_closure(
)
Print a comparison between a and b and common immediate
subdirectories.
report_full_closure(
)
Print a comparison between a and b and common
subdirectories (recursively).
The dircmp offers a number of interesting attributes that may
be used to get various bits of information about the directory trees
being compared.
Note that via __getattr__() hooks, all attributes are
computed lazily, so there is no speed penalty if only those
attributes which are lightweight to compute are used.
left_list
Files and subdirectories in a, filtered by hide and
ignore.
right_list
Files and subdirectories in b, filtered by hide and
ignore.
common
Files and subdirectories in both a and b.
left_only
Files and subdirectories only in a.
right_only
Files and subdirectories only in b.
common_dirs
Subdirectories in both a and b.
common_files
Files in both a and b
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.
same_files
Files which are identical in both a and b.
diff_files
Files which are in both a and b, whose contents differ.
funny_files
Files which are in both a and b, but could not be
compared.
subdirs
A dictionary mapping names in common_dirs to
dircmp objects.
