Recursively compare two directories to ensure they have the same files and subdirectories

Question

From what I observe filecmp.dircmp is recursive, but inadequate for my needs, at least in py2. I want to compare two directories and all their contained files. Do

Answer 1

The report_full_closure() method is recursive:

comparison = filecmp.dircmp('/directory1', '/directory2')
comparison.report_full_closure()

Edit: After the OP's edit, I would say that it's best to just use the other functions in filecmp. I think os.walk is unnecessary; better to simply recurse through the lists produced by common_dirs, etc., although in some cases (large directory trees) this might risk a Max Recursion Depth error if implemented poorly.