https://github.com/breezy-team/patiencediff

Patiencediff implementation
https://github.com/breezy-team/patiencediff

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Patiencediff implementation

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/breezy-team/patiencediff
• Owner: breezy-team
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2018-07-11T20:18:47.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-28T11:06:00.000Z (15 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-28T14:27:44.894Z (15 days ago)
• Topics: diff, patiencediff, python, python3
• Language: Python
• Size: 213 KB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: COPYING
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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patiencediff

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This package contains the implementation of the ``patiencediff`` algorithm, as

`first described `_ by Bram Cohen.

Like Python's ``difflib``, this module provides both a convenience ``unified_diff``

function for the generation of unified diffs of text files

as well as a SequenceMatcher that can be used on arbitrary lists.

Patiencediff provides a good balance of performance, nice output for humans,

and implementation simplicity.

The code in this package was extracted from the `Bazaar `_

code base.

The package comes with two implementations:

* A Python implementation (_patiencediff_py.py); this implementation only

  requires a Python interpreter and is the more readable version of the two

* A C implementation implementation (_patiencediff_c.c); this implementation

  is faster, but requires a C compiler and is less readable

Usage

=====

To invoke patiencediff from the command-line::

    python -m patiencediff file_a file_b

Or from Python::

    >>> import patiencediff

    >>> print(''.join(patiencediff.unified_diff(

    ...      ['a\n', 'b\n', 'b\n', 'c\n'],

    ...      ['a\n', 'c\n', 'b\n'])))

    ---

    +++

    @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@

     a

    +c

     b

    -b

    -c