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

Another solution to Compare the lay out of dir1 and dir2, ignore the content of files

See gist here: https://gist.github.com/4164344

Edit: here's the code, in case the gist gets lost for some reason:

import os

def compare_dir_layout(dir1, dir2):
    def _compare_dir_layout(dir1, dir2):
        for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(dir1):
            for filename in filenames:
                relative_path = dirpath.replace(dir1, "")
                if os.path.exists( dir2 + relative_path + '\\' +  filename) == False:
                    print relative_path, filename
        return

    print 'files in "' + dir1 + '" but not in "' + dir2 +'"'
    _compare_dir_layout(dir1, dir2)
    print 'files in "' + dir2 + '" but not in "' + dir1 +'"'
    _compare_dir_layout(dir2, dir1)


compare_dir_layout('xxx', 'yyy')