Newbie question on 'cmpfiles':

[Dave Brueck]

Hi Hari,
I haven't really used this module, so this may not help too much:

common is a list of filenames that exist in both directories. Depending on
what you need, maybe you shouldn't call that function at all (instead use
filecmp.cmp to compare two files, and create a filecmp.dircmp object to
compare the contents of two directories).

HTH,
Dave

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> Hello,
>
> I am a newbie user to python 2.0
>
> Can someone help me by explaining 'cmpfiles' function with a simple
> example?
>
> I am trying to compare 2 directories, but not sure about the syntaxof
> this function. The "Python Reference Library" did not help me on this.
>
> [What does "common" mean in "cmpfiles(dir1, dir2, common)"?]
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Hari.
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