In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a absolute requirement in this problem is to minimize the number of > comparison made between files. This is a part of the spec. You need do no comparisons between files. Just use a sufficiently strong hash algorithm (SHA-256 maybe?) and compare the hashes. -- David Eppstein Computer Science Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
