Question

I wrote a simple python script.
During the script i’m using

os.system ("diff file1 file2")

to check if two text files are similar or not.
I know the files are similar if nothing is being printed out.
In case nothing is being printed, i’d like to print out something
to the command line like “> the file are similar”.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

>>> import filecmp
>>> filecmp.cmp('file1.txt', 'file1.txt')
True

if True then just print message like both are similar
filecmp– A byte by byte efficient comparison it is