paste.debug.fsdiff – Show differences between directories

Module to find differences over time in a filesystem

Basically this takes a snapshot of a directory, then sees what changes were made. The contents of the files are not checked, so you can detect that the content was changed, but not what the old version of the file was.

Module Contents

class paste.debug.fsdiff.Diff(before, after)

Represents the difference between two snapshots

class paste.debug.fsdiff.Snapshot(base_path, files=None, ignore_wildcards=(), ignore_paths=(), ignore_hidden=True)

Represents a snapshot of a set of files. Has a dictionary-like interface, keyed relative to base_path

class paste.debug.fsdiff.File(base_path, path)

Represents a single file found as the result of a command.

Has attributes:

path:

The path of the file, relative to the base_path

full:

The full path

stat:

The results of os.stat. Also mtime and size contain the .st_mtime and st_size of the stat.

bytes:

The contents of the file.

You may use the in operator with these objects (tested against the contents of the file), and the .mustcontain() method.

class paste.debug.fsdiff.Dir(base_path, path)

Represents a directory created by a command.

paste.debug.fsdiff.report_expected_diffs(diffs, colorize=False)

Takes the output of compare_expected, and returns a string description of the differences.

paste.debug.fsdiff.show_diff(actual_content, expected_content)