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

dircmp can be recursive: see report_full_closure.

As far as I know dircmp does not offer a directory comparison function. It would be very easy to write your own, though; use left_only and right_only on dircmp to check that the files in the directories are the same and then recurse on the subdirs attribute.