wcopyfind equivalent for python

You can use the difflib module in python. Does the similar job:

from difflib import SequenceMatcher with open('file1.txt') as file_1,open('file2.txt') as file_2: file1_data = file_1.read() file2_data = file_2.read() similarity_ratio = SequenceMatcher(None,file1_data,file2_data).ratio() print similarity_ratio #plagiarism detected