Python file program to compare two files

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In this python file program, we will compare two files with the help of the below-given steps.. Let’s consider we have file1.txt and file2.txt files with the below content.

				
					#file1.txt
Line1 : This is India.
Line2 : This is America.
Line3 : This is Canada.
Line4 : This is Australia.
Line5 : This is Africa.
Line6 : This is Korea.
Line7 : This is Germany.
Line8 : This is China.

#file2.txt
Jay - 3569872214
Yash - 9865472589
Ketan - 8854632255
Rajesh - 7020589634
Steps to solve the program
				
					# Impoer difflib library
import difflib 
# Open file and read lines
with open('file1.txt') as file_1:
# Open file and read lines
    file_1_text = file_1.readlines() 
with open('file2.txt') as file_2:
    file_2_text = file_2.readlines()
for line in difflib.unified_diff(
        file_1_text, file_2_text, fromfile='file name',
        tofile='file.txt', lineterm=''):
    print(line)

Output :

--- file1.txt
+++ file2.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
-Line1 : This is India.

-Line2 : This is America.

-Line3 : This is Canada.

-Line4 : This is Australia.

-Line5 : This is Africa.

-Line6 : This is Korea.

-Line7 : This is Germany.

-Line8 : This is China.
+Jay - 3569872214

+Yash - 9865472589

+Ketan - 8854632255

+Rajesh - 7020589634
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count the number of lines in a file.

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