New submission from Matej Fröbe:
Example:
with open('file1', 'w') as f:
f.write('a')
with open('file2', 'w') as f:
f.write('a')
print filecmp.cmp('file1', 'file2', shallow=False) # true
with open('file2', 'w') as f:
f.write('b')
print filecmp.cmp('file1', 'file2', shallow=False) # true
Because of the caching, both calls to filecmp.cmp() return true on my system.
When retrieving value from cache, the function filecmp.cmp() checks the
signatures of the files:
s1 = _sig(os.stat(f1))
s2 = _sig(os.stat(f2))
...
outcome = _cache.get((f1, f2, s1, s2))
But the signatures in cache are the same, if the file sizes and times of
modification (os.stat().st_mtime) haven't changed from the last call, even if
the content has changed.
The buffer is mentioned in the documentation, but there isn't any documented
way to clear it. It also isn't nice IMO, that one has to worry about the file
system's resolution of the file modification time when calling a simple file
comparison.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 190715
nosy: fbm
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: filecmp.cmp() - cache invalidation fails when file modification times
haven't changed
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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