Hi,

I'm new to python, as in I read the first 5 chapters of 'dive into python' new.

I'm trying to use the levenshtein algorithm to do some edit distance comparisions. However rather than comparing strings I want to compare files (oo-er). My idea is to get the binary or hexadecimal output of a file (perhaps using xxd) and then save that to a variable. Then use the algorithm to 'compare' how similar the files are....