On 8/26/2013 5:26 PM, 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.
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. This functionality is done in many
text editors (Notepad++ can install a plug-in that allows comparison
between two files), so I would think that the code behind this is
pretty common, yet I can't seem to find any reference to it. My
searches for "python text comparison code" points to Python IDEs that
include that functionality, but no indication as to how to include it
into my own code. I think I'm missing something else to search by, but
I can't determine what it is.
Does anyone have an idea of what I'm talking about, and can you point
me in the right direction?
If you have diff available (e.g. on *nix) write a subprocess to pass the
texts to diff and retrieve the results. There is NO need to re-invent
the wheel.
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Bob Gailer
919-636-4239
Chapel Hill NC
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