Python implementation of the patiencediff algorithm
This package contains the implementation of the patiencediff algorithm, as first described by Bram Cohen. Like Python's difflib, this module provides both a convience 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 (_patiencediff_c.c); this implementation is faster, but requires a C compiler and is less readable. It may also be called from the command line: - python3 -m patiencediff file_a file_b
Homepage: https://github.com/breezy-team/patiencediff