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This package contains the implementation of the patiencediff algorithm, as
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first described by Bram Cohen.
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Like Python's difflib, this module provides both a convience unified_diff
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function for the generation of unified diffs of text files as well as a
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SequenceMatcher that can be used on arbitrary lists.
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Patiencediff provides a good balance of performance, nice output for humans,
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and implementation simplicity.
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The code in this package was extracted from the Bazaar code base.
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The package comes with two implementations:
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- A Python implementation (_patiencediff_py.py); this implementation only
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requires a Python interpreter and is the more readable version of the two.
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- A C implementation (_patiencediff_c.c); this implementation
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is faster, but requires a C compiler and is less readable.
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It may also be called from the command line:
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- python3 -m patiencediff file_a file_b
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