[Tutor] Diff for Python

[Alan Gauld]

On Windows you can use FC - File Compare.
Its not as powerful as diff but it will highlight differences.

Help FC

will get you the switch options.

Or just use cygwin - any Unix user on Windows
should get cygwin as a matter of course IMHO! :-)

Alan G.


"Eric Walstad" <eric at ericwalstad.com> wrote in message 
news:c436fcd20804051310v4676817tef4bc9c3672b2869 at mail.gmail.com...
> And my whoops, I should have sent my first one to the list, too.
>
> I don't run Windows very often.  I think 'WinDiff' is what I used
> there.  Have you tried that?
>
> There's always cygwin, too.
>
> Eric.
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Wayne Watson
> <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Whoop, I should have specified I'm on Win XP.
>>
>>
>>  Eric Walstad wrote:
>>  Hi Wayne,
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Wayne Watson
>> <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Is there a Linux diff-like command for Python code? I'd like to 
>> see the
>>  difference between two py files.
>>
>>  Why don't you just use diff?
>> What OS are you on?
>>
>> diff -Bu fileone.py filezero.py
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