[Tutor] Comparison Textboxes

[Steven D'Aprano]

Hi Taserian,

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 05:26:37PM -0400, taserian wrote:
> I'm attempting to gather the pieces I need for a simple project I'd like to
> do for my job, but I'm having a difficult time finding something, and I'm
> appealing to the hive mind at Tutor for wisdom.

Just for the record, "hive mind" is not a compliment, it is an insult. 
Rather than suggest "the wisdom of the crowd", it suggests a group of 
people indoctrinated into all believing exactly the same thing.


> My project needs to compare two or more large textboxes (each one
> containing a file or a large amount of text) and point out their
> differences, establishing one textbox as the canonical one to which the
> other textboxes are compared.

You want the difflib module:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/difflib.html


-- 
Steven