On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:51:44 -0500, Gregory Piñero wrote: > http://www.blendedtechnologies.com/removing-duplicate-mp3s-with-python-a-naive-yet-fuzzy-approach/60 > > If anyone would be kind enough to improve it I'd love to have these > features but I'm swamped this week! > > - MD5 checking for find exact matches regardless of name > - Put each set of duplicates in its own subfolder.
This isn't a criticism, it is a genuine question. Why do people compare local files with MD5 instead of doing a byte-to-byte compare? Is it purely a caching thing (once you have the checksum, you don't need to read the file again)? Are there any other reasons? -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
