In Python, is there a concise way of comparing whether the contents of two text files are the same?

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The low level way:

from __future__ import with_statement
with open(filename1) as f1:
   with open(filename2) as f2:
      if f1.read() == f2.read():
         ...

The high level way:

import filecmp
if filecmp.cmp(filename1, filename2, shallow=False):
   ...

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