python-aware wdiff?
Ian Kelly
ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Mon Jul 14 16:59:14 EDT 2014
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> The under-known difflib.differ shows within line differences.
> Your example would look like:
>
> - if not metar.is_in_temp_range_f(...):
> ? ^^^^^
> + if not info.is_in_temp_range_f
> ? ^^^^
>
> Deletions and insertions are indicated with '-' and '+'.
> I use this routinely, when backporting patches, in a script that differs the
> 2.7 and 3.4 versions of repository files.
That will produce a minimal diff though, not a syntax-aware diff. If
the latter is important, something could probably be cooked up using
tokenize and difflib. Not sure how much work that would be.
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