[issue12932] dircmp does not allow non-shallow comparisons

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Lennart, I saw your response on StackOverflow ;-). -- nosy: +terry.reedy resolution: out of date -> stage: committed/rejected -> test needed status: closed -> open versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.6, Python 2.7 ___ P

[issue12932] dircmp does not allow non-shallow comparisons

Lennart Regebro added the comment: filecmp is still there in Python 3.3 Alpha 3. I can't find any reference to it being deprecated. -- nosy: +lregebro ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue12932] dircmp does not allow non-shallow comparisons

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report. Unfortunately 2.7 is closed to new features and the module is removed in 3.x, so there is nothing to do here. -- nosy: +eric.araujo resolution: -> out of date stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed _

[issue12932] dircmp does not allow non-shallow comparisons

New submission from Kevin Smith : While filecmp.cmp and filecmp.cmpfiles allow a shallow option to be specified to invoke a more involved comparison of files, filecmp.dircmp does not. It is limited to shallow-only comparisons. This could be solved quite easily by adding a shallow keyword op