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"""Efficiently compare files, boolean outcome only (equal / not equal).
Tricks (used in this order):
- Use the statcache module to avoid statting files more than once
- Files with identical type, size & mtime are assumed to be clones
- Files with different type or size cannot be identical
- We keep a cache of outcomes of earlier comparisons
- We don't fork a process to run 'cmp' but read the files ourselves
"""
import os
from stat import *
import statcache
# The cache.
#
cache = {}
def cmp(f1, f2, shallow=1):
"""Compare two files, use the cache if possible.
May raise os.error if a stat or open of either fails.
Return 1 for identical files, 0 for different.
Raise exceptions if either file could not be statted, read, etc."""
s1, s2 = sig(statcache.stat(f1)), sig(statcache.stat(f2))
if not S_ISREG(s1[0]) or not S_ISREG(s2[0]):
# Either is a not a plain file -- always report as different
return 0
if shallow and s1 == s2:
# type, size & mtime match -- report same
return 1
if s1[:2] != s2[:2]: # Types or sizes differ, don't bother
# types or sizes differ -- report different
return 0
# same type and size -- look in the cache
key = f1 + ' ' + f2
if cache.has_key(key):
cs1, cs2, outcome = cache[key]
# cache hit
if s1 == cs1 and s2 == cs2:
# cached signatures match
return outcome
# stale cached signature(s)
# really compare
outcome = do_cmp(f1, f2)
cache[key] = s1, s2, outcome
return outcome
def sig(st):
"""Return signature (i.e., type, size, mtime) from raw stat data."""
return S_IFMT(st[ST_MODE]), st[ST_SIZE], st[ST_MTIME]
def do_cmp(f1, f2):
"""Compare two files, really."""
#print ' cmp', f1, f2 # XXX remove when debugged
bufsize = 8*1024 # Could be tuned
fp1 = open(f1, 'rb')
fp2 = open(f2, 'rb')
while 1:
b1 = fp1.read(bufsize)
b2 = fp2.read(bufsize)
if b1 != b2: return 0
if not b1: return 1
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